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6 words match “THROTTLE”

THROTTLE n. 7 definitions
The throttle valve. Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axi…
THROTTLER n. 2 definitions
One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.
CHOKING COIL n.
mall resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
THRAPPLE n.
Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
THROPPLE v.
To throttle. [Prov. Eng.]
WARIANGLE n.
The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]