| 单词 | fishtail burner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfish-tail burner a. That part of an illuminating apparatus from which the flame comes; in a lamp the wick-holder; in a gas-light the part containing the hole or holes through which the gas passes before combustion. Often with defining words, as burner Argand, batwing burner, Bunsen burner, burner cockspur, fish-tail burner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > combustibility > devices for burning gases burner1790 afterburner1955 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > parts of > burner burner1790 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > fuelled by gas > gas-burner > types of cockspur burner1808 rose burner1820 batwing burner1828 gas ring1837 rosette1856 Bude-burner1875 1790 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 162 A simple Argand's burner. 1808 W. Murdock in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 125 The burners..are connected with the mains, by short tubes. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 283 The luminary..had four burners, which never..were all in action together. 1886 Harper's Mag. Feb. 463/2 From the centre of the dome a large chandelier was suspended, furnished with four electric burners. fish-tail burner The tail of a fish. Chiefly attributive of things resembling a fish's tail in shape or action, e.g. a spreading flame from a kind of gas-burner, hence called fish-tail burner, fish-tail-jet (also shortened fish-tail). ΚΠ 1840 Mechanics' Mag. 32 343/2 The best small light is..the fish-tail jet. 1852 J. Bourne Treat. Screw Propeller 56 Fowles's Fish-tail Propeller. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. Oct. I turned on a fishtail burner. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 128/2 In the case of cannel coal, the holes are small; and for common London gas they are rather large. The former are known by the name of Lancashire or Scotch fish-tails. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) x. 247 We have no more reverence for the sun than we have for a fish-tail gas burner. 1892 Daily News 29 Mar. 6/6 I spliced it to the bedstead, in what they call a fishtail knot. 1931 Vanity Fair Nov. 78/2 Fishtailing, which is swishing the machine from side to side to reduce the forward speed, explains a fishtail landing as zig-zagging after touching ground, in order to slow down when coming into a small field. 1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 57/3 Fish-tail, shaped like tail of fish; having cut-out V in end.—f[ish-tail] drapery, train, as on a formal gown, shaped like fish-tail. 1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 8 Drag bit (fishtail bit, pilot bit), a rotary bit which has two or more cutting blades or wings with hard~faced cutting edges. (Various types are the two-wing, three-wing, fishtail and pilot bits.) < as lemmas |
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