单词 | water bar |
释义 | water barn.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water boom1645 estacade1670 water bar1683 1683 Dutch Rogue 15 Before they came to the Boom (or Water-bar) it was lockt, so that they could not get through to the stream. 2. Building. A bar or strip inserted lengthwise inside the sill of an external door or window to prevent water getting in. ΚΠ 1758 P. Hudson New Introd. Trade & Business 54 A new Water-bar for a Casement. 1830 Examiner 18 July 464/2 (advt.) A. Smith and Co. respectfully solicit the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Architects, to their Patent Weather-tight Fastenings and Water Bars for French Casements and Doors. 1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 216/1 The groove on the face [of the sill] is for the tongue on the window board, and that on the underside is to receive a metal water bar sealing the joint between the wood and stone sills. 1979 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained (ed. 3) x. 143/4 Wood casement window... Water bar in sills bedded in mastic. 2006 Good Woodworking June 56/1 The water bar is added to prevent rain from being driven under the door, and may be galvanised steel or plastic. 3. Papermaking. Each of a pair of additional wires in a mould, between the outer chain wire and the edge; an impression in paper of a line produced by such a wire. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > mould > part of water bar1773 chain wire1889 1773 L. Carter Diary Jan. (1965) II. 747 In the Bills of 1769 the water Bars are in the true Bills near a quarter of an Inch narrower or nearer to each other than in the forged bills. 1948 Paper & Print 21 226/1 There is not the light extra rib without chain or sewing wires at either end of the mould, as in modern (English) moulds, termed ‘water-bar’, or ‘suction-bar’ or a wire as described by Lalande as ‘Tranchefil’. 1982 E. G. Loeber Paper Mould & Mouldmaker x. 43 We may observe two narrower fields on each short side of the sheet, produced by the so-called water-bar, a kind of auxiliary chain line. 2000 R. S. Shay & R. Thompson Purcell MSS i. 9 At either end of the mould there was a more closely spaced extra wire parallel with the edge: these wires, variously known as edge wires, water bar wires or tranchefiles, were not attached to wooden ribs and did not cause shadows. 4. Engineering. A tubular bar in a fire grate or boiler through which water is passed to be heated. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > for heating water water heater1824 water bar1843 geyser1878 chip heater1900 immersion heater1914 instantaneous (water-)heater1935 back-boiler1939 fridge-heater1957 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > bars fire bar1668 water bar1843 jockey-bar1887 1843 Mechanics' Mag. 4 Nov. 323/2 Not the slightest encrustation can be discovered on the tubes or in the water bars with which these boilers are fitted. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 124/2 Weeks's Tubular Waterbar Open Fire Grate. 1907 Railway Age 5 July 20/1 The boiler had four 3-inch water bars. 2009 Code of Federal Regulations: 49: Transportation (Office of Federal Register, U.S.) IV. 535/1 (table) Were arch tubes, circulators, siphons and water bar tubes cleaned and inspected? 5. U.S. A low ridge made slantwise across a sloping road or track to divert surface water to one side; = water break n. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > type of road surface water bar1850 chip seal1936 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > type of road surface > ridge to deflect surface water water bar1850 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > surface > ridge to prevent accumulation of water thank-you-ma'am1849 water bar1850 1850 L. P. Cooper in New-Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. 6 xx. 220 In passing a water bar, he was thrown from his carriage and killed. 1880 Amer. Law Reg. 28 744 Where the corporation..should also construct water-bars so as to cause the surface-water to flow upon the adjacent property, no action would lie against the corporation. 1991 Bicycle Guide Sept. 54/1 You have much better control braking and cornering and hitting water bars and jumping and all that kind of stuff. 2001 National Geographic Adventure Jan. 79/4 Build a waterbar or break up a wind-felled branch during National Trails Day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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