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waterthief (plural waterthieves)

  1. Alternative form of water-thief (“a type of valve”)
    • 1960, Annual Report, Oregon, State Fire Marshal, page 96:
      Weston—300 feet 1½ inch hose; 50 feet 2½ inch hose; one flasher; one siamese waterthief; one foam extinguisher.
    • 1997, Gerhard Endress, ‎Remke Kruk, editors, Akten des Zweiten Symposium Graeco-Arabicum, page 197:
      An example is the waterthief (klepsydra). This is a tube, of which one (bottom) end is held under water, and which becomes full of water by sucking the air out of it at the other (top) end.
    • 2021, Michael Louis Kuk, An Army Firefighter in Vietnam 1970-1971:
      The APC Tank was capable of delivering three mediums of extinguishing agents via a valved “Waterthief” three-way appliance that was connected to the P-250 pump.
    • 2023, Edwin Zondervan, ‎Cristhian Almeida-Rivera, ‎Kyle Vincent Camarda, Product-Driven Process Design, page 439:
      The most common control loop is called the feedback control loop. Feedback control is as old as civilization, or at least 1000 years old. Figure 17.8 shows a klepshydra, which is ancient Greek for "waterthief"!
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