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Stuffing box

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Noun
  1. 1
    An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal wordnet

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