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noun

Relay n.

A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief. Specifically:

(a)

A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.

(b)

A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.

(c)

A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

(Elec.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

Relay battery (Elec.), the local battery which is brought into use by the action of the relay magnet, or relay.

verb

Relay v. t. (past & past part. relaid; pres. part. relaying) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

adjective

Relay adj. (Mach.) Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.

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"Relay" Quotes from Famous Books

... their way. The dew was again beginning to gather when, well to the south, they approached the bordering hills that concealed the site of Sioux Falls settlement. Then for the first time since they began that last relay Landor gave ...

— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge

... repress as he recalled his reception at Brunn. In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... through a very bad and dangerous country, but the emergency was great and I concluded to try it. I therefore started promptly from Three Crossings without more than a moment's rest. I pushed on with the usual rapidity, entering every relay station on time, and accomplished the round trip of three hundred and twenty-two miles back to Red Buttes without a single mishap and on time. This stands on the records as being the longest Pony Express journey ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... I know he did. That's how he got inside our screens. He came inside faster than the warning message could relay back the information. Didn't you see him accelerate to an impossible speed in an impossible time? Didn't you see how he just vanished as he exceeded the speed of light, and stopped reflecting it? That ship was no ship ...

— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell

... plan of campaign was to engineer a successful retreat into Montana and there form a junction with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes under Sitting Bull. There was a relay scouting system, one set of scouts leaving the main body at evening and the second a little before daybreak, passing the first set on some commanding hill top. There were also decoy scouts set to trap Indian scouts of the ...

— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

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