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Definition of Gas ring
1. Noun. Gas burner consisting of a circular metal pipe with several small holes through which gas can escape to be burned.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Ring
Literary usage of Gas ring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1915)
"CHAPTER LXXXIX THE PHILADELPHIA gas ring PHILADELPHIA, though it has not maintained
that primacy among American cities which in the days of the Revolution ..."
2. Causes and Effects in American History: The Story of the Origin and by Edwin Wilson Morse (1912)
"Tammany Hall under Tweed was Democratic, but the gas ring which nourished in
Philadelphia and which, in the decade from 1870 to 1881, added fifty millions ..."
3. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski, Frederick Clarke (1922)
"From this point of view the history of the gas ring is particularly characteristic,
The anxieties of the Civil War having kept the good ..."
4. Democracy and the Party System in the United States: A Study in Extra by Moisei Ostrogorski (1910)
"Once in power,- the gas ring exploited the city exchequer just as methodically
as, but with more prudence and decency than, the Tammany Ring; ..."
5. Popular Misgovernment in the United States by Alfred Byron Cruikshank (1920)
"The corruption in Philadelphia city politics has been notorious for a long time.
The operations of the infamous gas ring caused the debt of the city, ..."
6. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1897)
"The main advantages to the railways of the gas ring regime were ... In 1881 a
citizens' Committee of One Hundred broke the power of the gas ring, ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A chamber in which carbonaceous matter is distilled to produce illuminating gas.
gas-ring (gas'ring), и. In some forms of breech- loading firearms, ..."
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