steam chest

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   the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder

   Broaderchamber

   Part ofsteam engine

Questions about steam chest

What does steam chest mean?

steam chest means "the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder".

Is steam chest a common word?

steam chest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.