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Scavenging   Listen
noun
Scavenging  n., pres. part.  (Internal-combustion Engines) Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.






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"Scavenging" Quotes from Famous Books



... all right! It'll be a nasty business for the swells! It's all the same to the poor, they haven't anything to eat. But suppose the soldiers are ordered to do it! Scavenging must be done if the city ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo



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