"drain cock" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1943 September and October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cylinder Drain Cocks”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:",
          "text": "The opening of cylinder drain cocks is generally arranged to take place simultaneously on all cylinders by operating a single control in the cab, and the effect should be four horizontal emissions of steam at the leading end of the engine with every revolution of the driving wheels of a 2-cylinder engine, six with a 3-cylinder simple, and so on. If in certain cases you have noted an emission at every fourth exhaust beat only, there seems little doubt you have mistaken for a drain cock effect the effect of a loose gland.",
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        "Alternative form of draincock."
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  "word": "drain cock"
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          "ref": "1943 September and October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cylinder Drain Cocks”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:",
          "text": "The opening of cylinder drain cocks is generally arranged to take place simultaneously on all cylinders by operating a single control in the cab, and the effect should be four horizontal emissions of steam at the leading end of the engine with every revolution of the driving wheels of a 2-cylinder engine, six with a 3-cylinder simple, and so on. If in certain cases you have noted an emission at every fourth exhaust beat only, there seems little doubt you have mistaken for a drain cock effect the effect of a loose gland.",
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  "word": "drain cock"
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