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a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boile…

Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°, and is held as in the illustration. -- To reverse an engine or a machine, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.

e manner; to jostle. And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton. He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants. Arbuthnot.

Old beer; sharp or strong liquor. [Old Slang] Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow Addison.

To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. -- Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.…

at extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.

Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.

pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.