See Also: water-hammer(dictionary)
water hammer(medicine)
water-hammer pulse(medicine)
Water Box - Motor Sports(gambling)
Water Pump - Motor Sports(gambling)
Inside Water - Water Polo(gambling)
Hammer Down - Motor Sports(gambling)
Drop the Hammer - Motor Sports(gambling)
water boy(dictionary)
water can(medicine)

Water Box - Motor Sports (gambling) and water-hammer (iou)


Water Box - Motor Sports (gambling)


In drag racing, the wet area before the staging lanes. The driver pulls through the water to wet the tires prior to a burnout.

water-hammer (iou)



water-hammer noun. E19.
[from WATER noun + HAMMER noun.]
An evacuated tube partly filled with water which falls on the end with a noise like that of a hammer when the tube is reversed, used to illustrate the fact that in a vacuum liquids and solids fall at the same rate. E19.
The (sound of) concussion or reverberation in a water pipe when the flow is suddenly stopped, when there is an airlock, or when steam is admitted. L19.
Medicine. Used attrib. to designate a jerky pulse with a full expansion followed by a sudden collapse. L19.