air cylinder

American  

noun

1. a cylinder containing air, especially one equipped with a piston and used as a device for checking the recoil of a gun.

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air cylinder British  

noun

1. a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes

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air cylinder

BCA’s air bag pack uses a compressed air cylinder and costs $500, plus another $175 for the compressed air cylinder.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015

BCA’s air bag pack uses a compressed air cylinder and costs $500, plus another $175 for compressed air cylinder.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 23, 2015

He is a "skin-diver," and loves nothing better than swimming under water with mask and air cylinder.

From Time Magazine Archive

A compressed air cylinder raises the rod, flips the fish toward the frying pan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two of these valves are placed in each piston of a double-acting air cylinder, the piston being hollow and the free air being admitted through a tail-rod pipe, letter E, Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various