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单词 prop stay
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prop stay
prop stay n. Engineering Obsolete (in a steam boiler) each of a series of short water-carrying tubes which cross the flue, so increasing the surface area across which heat is transferred.Perhaps intended in the general sense ‘a prop, a stay’, later misinterpreted as a term specific to the context.
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1852 Sci. Amer. 1 May 264/2 Galloway's Double Furnace Tubular Boiler... The fire flue is supported and strengthened by a series of short vertical water tubes... These tubes are prop stays of the strongest possible form for resisting any collapse of the fire flue.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1811/1 Prop-stay, a transverse water-tube crossing a boiler-flue,..increasing the flue-surface by the exposure of its exterior surface to the heated current.
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