Plunger is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLUNGER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an instrument or part of a mechanism which works or is worked with a plunging or thrusting movement
• a part of a device or mechanism that works with a plunging or thrusting movement.
• a device consisting of a rubber cup on a long handle, used to clear blocked pipes by means of suction.
• a person who gambles or spends money recklessly
• rubber suction cup used to clear blocked pipes
• One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
• A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
• One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
• A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
• The firing pin of a breechloader.
• someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
• someone who dives (into water)
• hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
• mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that plunges

Words related to PLUNGER

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Words that contain PLUNGER

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How to use PLUNGER in a sentence

• He spoke as a reformed plunger, and with many a bitter experience of the race-course and the card-room.
• The pipe leading to the pump is a suction pipe when the plunger ascends, and a forcing pipe when the plunger descends.
• The plunger has bills out, and she has ready money.
• A cross head pump consists of a pump barrel, a plunger, one vertical check valve and two horizontal check valves, a globe valve and one stop cock, with more or less piping.
• The plunger is connected with the cross head and in direct line with the pump barrel, and plays back and forth in the barrel.
• At the same end and at the extreme end of the travel of the plunger it is tapped for a second pipe through which the water from the supply reaches the pump barrel.
• The plunger comes back with it and takes the space occupied by the water, which must get out of the way for the plunger.
• There is another check valve just ahead, and as the plunger travels back it drives the water through this second check.
• If the pump is in good condition, the plunger does its work and the water is forced through into the boiler.
• A clear sharp click of the valves at each stroke of the plunger is certain evidence that the pump is working well.
• In America, a plunger is used instead of a piston, and as it always moves in water the result is more satisfactory.
• The piston, or plunger, moves horizontally in the lower part of a U shaped cylinder.
• This pivot terminates in a plunger that enters a strong steel press-cylinder embedded in the masonry of the lower concrete vault.
• He thought he was displaying proper firmness, but his hand trembled, his heart beat like a plunger, and he was the victim of an ignoble bashfulness.
• The experiment in which the plunger on the hydraulic ram is immersed in sand and covered with water does not seem to be conclusive.
• At the bottom of each plunger was a small square piece of wood held and adjusted by screws.
• Through a hole in the plunger ran a thread holding a piece of lead of exactly the weight of the thimble.
• A screw at the top of the piece through which the plunger passed regulated the stop of the plunger.
• Hence, even when the plunger is moving upward, water is forced through the pipe because of the pressure of the compressed air.
• A plunger was shoved down into a pot of melted lead, kept molten by means of a gas flame.
• PLUNGING To become a good plunger the swimmer, first of all, has to have good lungs.
• Then withdrawal of the sponge carrier will remove all of the secretion in the tube just as the plunger in a pump will lift all of the water above it.
• After the condensation of the steam in D, a renewed supply of water, through K, forces the plunger, E, to the top of the cylinder, ready for the next action of steam.
• Pete is what I would call a plunger with the lid on.
• The iron plunger, D, is drawn into the tube and consequently the pointer, E, is drawn nearer to the coil.
• At eight hundred feet the operator broke into an ocean of gas, and the pressure blew him with plunger and appliances into the air as a ball comes from a cannon-bore.
• A wad of leaves is driven through with a plunger, and gives a sharp report, as it is expelled.
• There are two beams on the same main center, from the outer end of which a double line of bucket and plunger pumps is operated.
• The pumps are of the usual Cornish plunger type, with flap valves.
• These valves are similar in construction to those previously described for the horizontal plunger pump.
• The plunger, with its spring, was set vertically above the tube.
• IX THE PLUNGER A humour the most cool and reckless imaginable now possessed P.

Similar words containing PLUNG without suffix er

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