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Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, n.
1. (Engin.)
(a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a
furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and
deflect them against the substance to be heated.
(b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying
water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered
more uniform in different parts of the cross section
of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow,
as by means of a weir.
2. (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of
a winding engine. [Local, U. S.]
Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, v. i.
1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] --Barrow.
2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the
winds. [R.]
Baffle
Baffle Baf"fle, n.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.]
``A baffle to philosophy.' --South.
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