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valve gear: Meaning and Definition of

valve' gear"

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. (in a reciprocating engine) the mechanism for opening and closing the valves at certain points in each stroke.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
valved valve-in-head engine
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