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hydraulic Adjective operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid, such as water or oil [Greek hudōr water + aulos pipe] hydraulically adv
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| Victor Hatherley, hydraulic engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor). Nothing in those days could have been more striking than the vast, empty basins, surrounded by miles of bare quays and the ranges of cargo-sheds, where two or three ships seemed lost like bewitched children in a forest of gaunt, hydraulic cranes. Upon this wheel rested the first layers of the masonry, the stones of which were bound together by hydraulic cement, with irresistible tenacity. |
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