English Dictionary: flush tank | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flush \Flush\, a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. --Shak. 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. --Arbuthnot. 3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint. 4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit. {Flush bolt}. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. {Flush deck}. (Naut.) See under {Deck}, n., 1. {Flush tank}, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc. |