Ejector
[i'dʒektә]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
(n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
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Examples
- In the early form of the revolver the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected from the cylinder singly by an ejector rod or handy nail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I thought so, said he, the revolver had an ejector, and here is the third cartridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One of its most important features is the simultaneous extraction of the shells by an ejector, having a stem sliding through the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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