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hydraulic motor

American  

noun

  1. a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.


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Unlike suction units, the VacMaster's hydraulic motor produces negative force pressurization to remove the air from reusable bags in 55 seconds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The writer has had small practical experience of the working of that excellent hydraulic motor, the Pelton wheel, but if by horse-power in the table given is meant nominal horse-power, it appears to be high.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)

In this manner, by means of a long cord which reached to the ground, they could raise or lower the basket by means of the hydraulic motor.

From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.

The very singular and simple hydraulic motor which we illustrate herewith is the invention of a Russian engineer, Mr. Jagn.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various