Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a steam-boiler which lies below the steam-space, and is designed to hold the water to be evaporated.
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Examples
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has a water-space management organization that acts as an underwater traffic control and lets national submarine operators avoid each other.
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The buckets discharge through the annular water-space (4) between the tank and the generator (5).
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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In a voice no more than a husky, tremulous whisper, which was too low even to be intended to carry across the widening water-space, and therefore manifestly purposed for the establishment of her own conviction, she said:
Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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This occurs again in the _elbow_ of Wellington Channel, and between Griffith's Island and Cape Bunny, where a narrowing strait, and the cross-tide of the channel towards the American coast, tie up the broad floes formed in the great water-space west of that point; and lastly, a similar choke takes place, apparently off the S.W. extreme of
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848
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