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Definition of Batswing
1. a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
Definition of Batswing
1. shaped like a bat's wing [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batswing
Literary usage of Batswing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900)
"the modern steatite batswing, it is used in far greater numbers than any other
... As the result of their experiments with batswing burners having slits of ..."
2. Practical canoeing by Tiphys (1883)
"... or even very lightly ferruled with brass, which the fishing-rod makers can do.
CHAPTER V. THE next Illustration is of the batswing Sliding ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1892)
"It was about 1816 also that the cockspur burner became converted into the cockscomb,
and then into the batswing, this marking a distinct advance in the ..."
4. The Gas Engineer's Pocket-book, Comprising Tables, Notes, and Memoranda by Henry O'Connor (1907)
"Duty in Candles of Various Burners at S feet per Hour. (JH Cox, Junior.) Duty in
Candles. Standard Argand 16 Good batswing after 1 year's use, rather dirty ..."
5. Liquid and Gaseous Fuels: And the Part They Play in Modern Power Production by Vivian Byam Lewes (1907)
"The batswing flame was a very wide one, of but little height, whilst the fishtail
was much higher and more narrow. Although the service yielded by the ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The flames given by the batswing and fishtail burners differed in shape, the
former being wide and of but little height, whilst the latter was much higher ..."
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