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n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.

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	~~v. t~~.) ~~To throw~~, as ~~a musket~~, ~~diagonally across the body~~, ~~with the lock in front~~, the ~~right hand grasping the small~~ of the ~~stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point~~ of ~~the left shoulder~~; as, ~~to port arms~~.		n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.