单词 | pickle pot |
释义 | > as lemmaspickle pot pickle pot n. (a) a container for pickles; (b) now historical, a form of condenser used on some early steam engines (see quot. 1994). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > pickle-pot pickle pot1761 pickle bottle1771 pickle jar1778 pickle barrel1839 pickler1862 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > condensers condenser1769 surface condenser1843 tube-condenser1877 pickle pot1903 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xiv. 67 A three-halfpenny pickle pot. 1824 M. Randolph Virginia House-wife 210 Soak them in plain vinegar for a fortnight, and put them in the yellow pickle-pot. 1903 Nature 19 Nov. 68/2 After Watt's patent, Newcomen engines were made with separate condensers without air-pumps, the air being discharged through a snifting-valve. Such condensers were known as ‘pickle-pots’. 1994 D. Cardwell Fontana Hist. Technol. vii. 165 One way of getting round the patent was the so-called ‘pickle-pot’ condenser. Part of the pipe connecting the cylinder to the boiler was enlarged in the rough shape of a pickle jar. Cold condensing water was injected into the relatively small ‘pickle-pot’ while the working cylinder could be kept relatively hot all the time. 2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Dec. 60/1 The growth of the online auction site from fuzzy utopian community to corporate behemoth where one can buy everything from Sevres and Studebakers to pickle pots. < as lemmas |
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