1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / P / Piston. [p. 100]
A small cylinder which works in and out, fixed in the larger cylinder of the engine, and which conveys the motion to machinery by means of a rod.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.