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stuffing box

–noun Machinery.
a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
Also called gland.


Origin:
1790–1800
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stuffing box  
n.  An enclosure containing packing to prevent leakage around a moving machine part.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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