"stuffing box" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1943 September and October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Cylinder Drain Cocks”, in Railway Magazine, page 319",
          "text": "Packing in the stuffing-boxes, through which the piston-rods pass at the end of the cylinder, and so arranged to keep the cylinders steam-tight, at times become loose or displaced, and in such conditions steam may pass with considerable violence out of the cylinder by way of the stuffing-box, giving an acoustic effect somewhat resembling that of an engine with cylinder-cocks open, except that the noise heard is intermittent and not practically continuous, as when the cylinder cocks are open.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class \"5\" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 399",
          "text": "The regulator in the dome is of the vertical grid type, operated by an external pull rod connected to a transverse shaft which works through a stuffing box on the second barrel plate.",
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        }
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        "An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft."
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        "(engineering) An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stuffing-box"
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        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "word": "stuffing box"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943 September and October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Cylinder Drain Cocks”, in Railway Magazine, page 319",
          "text": "Packing in the stuffing-boxes, through which the piston-rods pass at the end of the cylinder, and so arranged to keep the cylinders steam-tight, at times become loose or displaced, and in such conditions steam may pass with considerable violence out of the cylinder by way of the stuffing-box, giving an acoustic effect somewhat resembling that of an engine with cylinder-cocks open, except that the noise heard is intermittent and not practically continuous, as when the cylinder cocks are open.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class \"5\" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 399",
          "text": "The regulator in the dome is of the vertical grid type, operated by an external pull rod connected to a transverse shaft which works through a stuffing box on the second barrel plate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft."
      ],
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        "(engineering) An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft."
      ],
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        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stuffing-box"
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