It is obviated by the use of a governor or by partly shutting off the steam by hand.
At the point m, where the back pressure line rises into a curve, the valve had closed, shutting in the cylinder a portion of the exhaust steam, which is afterwards compressed by the piston.
A device for shutting off or turning on the flow of water through a pipe.
All this could be changed in any vital way only by shutting up every soul absolutely to itself, and with that result life has simply ceased.
One of the soldiers had dismounted and tied his horse to the bars of the window; while within the prison the noise of quick footsteps was heard, doors opening and shutting heavily, all indicating the last preparations.
One night, when my mother could not sleep, her attention was attracted by a dull noise down-stairs, as if some one were shutting a trap-door clumsily.
Shutting off the supply of oil of free flowing lubricators, and lifting out the cotton from the others.
George Aspel to the red-coated official, who, after shutting the mouth, placed a ticket above it which told all corners that they were too late.
Charley went over to the fire and sat down on a bench, opening and shutting the scissors mechanically.
Before her eyes there came a mist obscuring the Seigneur, and for an instantshutting out the world.
Too oft the great, shutting Their doors on the bold, Do deeds that are cutting, Say words that are cold!
It sounds very nice," said Ripton, modestly shuttinghis mouth.
Clare kept opening and shutting her hand, in an attitude half-pensive, half-listless.
He assured her that he hoped not to do so and the moment she was gone he set about shutting it as tight as he could.
She glanced over it, and saw the usual accounts relating to the shuttingdown of various industrial concerns, and, as she looked further, there were the same accounts regarding the colored people.
Then, already work was shutting down, and had shut down in many cases.
A cry from the inside and a "ting," then a shutting of brakes, and the car came to a stop.
Thoughtful Nellie in another instant had taken the mice from Daisy's hold, and shutting both within the box laid it on a chair at a distance.
Jew, leading the way into a small room, and shutting the door.
Unconsciously he had acquired the habit of pressing his teeth together in the pauses of his talk, shutting them on some woe that would proclaim itself, as men do who keep their misery to themselves.
Though it seemed as lang time," the shepherd says, "as I could hae run up a hill in, I dinna suppose it was many minutes afore I saw Rintoul opening and shutting his een.
As Tosh says-- "It all happened in the opening and shutting o' an eye.
Jean suppressed a cry, and let the blind fall, as if shutting the lid on some uncanny thing.
His teeth had grip of his under-lip, as if this was a method of controlling his agitation, and he was opening and shutting his hands restlessly.
I remember putting my back against a tree and shutting my eyes, and listening to the lash of the waves against the beach, and hearing the faint toll of a bell, and wondering listlessly on what lighthouse it was ringing.
As certainly as the shutting of a money-box is followed by the turning of the key, did the precentor walk stiffly from the vestry to his box a toll of the bell in front of the minister.
She would have moved away if she could have done so easily, but the two girls stood directly in front of her, completely shutting her into her corner.
Then followed a soft tinkle of laughter, a little tap of heels, and an opening and shutting of doors.
Charley complied by shutting his eyes, and opening his mouth, and uttering a succession of deep snores.
Then to herself she said: This comes of shutting up a child with staid old people.
Marian was watching him as he did his funny act of swallowing, shutting his eyes and looking as if he meant to eat his own head, Patty said, when suddenly voices sounded behind her, angry voices.
The man ran out and came back shortly, dragging Argus and Rigo into the hall with him, shutting the front door.
With that she went out softly, shutting me in with my “beautiful” first-born.
Result--balance of 13-19ths in favour of not shutting the door.
Some individuals may not be strictly attached to this practice; but on the whole the Scotch may, for the sake of distinction, be said to be an anti-door-shutting nation.
The English have the reputation of being a blunt, downright people; and their practice of shutting the door after them makes it certain they are so.
One would naturally think, that as the act of shutting the door is the prerogative of the person who quits an apartment, it would not by so mindful a people be neglected.
They institute a rigorous comparison betweenshutting and not shutting.
Their principles apply only to shutting by their own hand.
And pray, sir, what are you shutting up the shop for at this time of the evening!
The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.
Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
His tone was very formal, for he would so much have liked it to be otherwise, and without looking at her he took a match from his pocket and went into the other room, shutting the door after him.
The door fell to behind them, shutting out the icy night.
Talbot came himself and let each man in, in turn as they came up, shutting the door afterwards.
The small haven was full of sun, the green, wooded hills sloping softly down about it and shutting off all winds.
But Joro catches the wasp in his hand, and by alternately shutting and opening his hand he causes the lama alternately to lose and recover consciousness.
He called after her as she was shutting the door: "Doctor Frank goes to Montreal this afternoon.
Nothing was to be heard but the storm, without, and now and then the opening and shutting of some door within.
As an unprofessed Sister of Charity, she might go among those poor ones doing good; and dimly in the future she could see the cloistered, grateful walls shutting her from the troubles of this feverish life.
There was some more opening of eyes and shutting of mouths.
He bowed from his waist up, shutting up like a jack-knife.
She closed the bureau carefully and stepped behind the arras, shutting the tapestry door carefully.
She gained the door of her mother's house and, springing up the creaking stair, went quickly into her room, shutting and bolting the door behind her.
She drew the girl into the kitchen, and after shutting the larder door in the servant-maid's astonished face, she planted herself firmly in front of Wilhelmine.
Frau von Grävenitz stuck the rush-light up between a book which was lying on the table and the edge of the plate, then shutting the window she went out, closing and re-locking the door behind her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blockade; closing; occlusion
