Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Those parts of a steam-engine, particularly of a locomotive or marine engine, by which the direction of the motion is changed: a general term covering all such parts of the machine, including the reversing-lever, eccentrics, link-motion, and valves of the cylinders.
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I suppose they are the brake and the reversing-gear? "
Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 Various 1898
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