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cylinder front

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noun

Furniture.

  1. a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.

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Burns Coal Roaster with Brickwork Setting The front of the machine shown has a cast-iron plate having brackets which support the cylinder front bearing, and double fire doors below for the furnace and the ash pit.

From Project Gutenberg

The harpsichord boxed up front gave way to the cylinder front, invented by Henry Pape, a clever German pianoforte-maker who bad settled in Paris.

From Project Gutenberg

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