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Semi-Diesel

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(a.) Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Semi-Diesel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/semi-diesel.html. 1828.
 
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