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单词 water-slide gasolier
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water-slide gasolier
2. On a gasolier or gas chandelier: a water seal in the form of a sliding water-filled tube. Also: a chandelier or gasolier incorporating such a seal (more fully water-slide chandelier, water-slide gasolier). Now historical.
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1839 Scotsman 11 Dec. 1/4 (advt.) Two-light water slides, with obscured jet shades.
1840 Liverpool Mercury 28 Aug. (advt.) A great variety of 2, 3, and 4 light chandeliers, with and without water slides.
1864 Mechanics' Mag. 21 Oct. 289/1 Improvements in gaseliers, of the kind commonly called ‘water slide gaselier’.
1904 H. O'Connor Hughes's Gas Works (ed. 9) xx. 371 Of recent times the cork-slide pendant has taken the place of the water-slide.
1921 Gas Manuf., Distribution & Use (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 82/2 Water-slide chandeliers..are dangerous owing to the possibility of their dropping and causing the gas pipe to become unsealed.
1999 D. Gledhill Gas Lighting (ed. 2) 21 (caption) Water slide gasolier (chandelier) with upright burners, about 1870.
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