A casing in which material such as greased wool is compressed around a shaft or axle to form a seal against gas or liquid, used for instance where the propeller shaft of a boat passes through the hull.
填料箱，密封垫
Example sentencesExamples
The alignment was out and the shaft was tearing up the stuffing box.
The bilge pump had pumped without hindrance because her leaks around the stuffing box of the engine were too small to let in material which might clog it - just big enough to keep the pump busy.
It is very possible for the boat to surge back with the rudder hard over and bend or break the shaft or the stuffing box, leaving you with a catastrophic leak in the middle of a hurricane.
Check the engine shaft and rudder stuffing boxes for steady leaks and looseness.
When they arrived in Fort Lauderdale, ready to take off to sail, their boat started leaking - the entire stuffing box had come loose.
Other sources of moisture include deck leaks and, in one case, saltwater flying off of the shaft at a leaky stuffing box.
Definition of stuffing box in US English:
stuffing box
nounˈstəfiNG ˌbäks
A casing in which material such as greased wool is compressed around a shaft or axle to form a seal against gas or liquid, used for instance where the propeller shaft of a boat passes through the hull.
填料箱，密封垫
Example sentencesExamples
When they arrived in Fort Lauderdale, ready to take off to sail, their boat started leaking - the entire stuffing box had come loose.
It is very possible for the boat to surge back with the rudder hard over and bend or break the shaft or the stuffing box, leaving you with a catastrophic leak in the middle of a hurricane.
The alignment was out and the shaft was tearing up the stuffing box.
Check the engine shaft and rudder stuffing boxes for steady leaks and looseness.
The bilge pump had pumped without hindrance because her leaks around the stuffing box of the engine were too small to let in material which might clog it - just big enough to keep the pump busy.
Other sources of moisture include deck leaks and, in one case, saltwater flying off of the shaft at a leaky stuffing box.