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Wa′ter-float.

A device in a cistern, boiler, etc., which, floating on the water, actuates a valve. See water-gage.

Fig. 7104 has a stone which is so far counterbalanced by the suspended ball as to float on the water and actuate a valve when the water is too high or too low in the steam-boiler.

Water-engine.

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