Pulling this handle turned the motor over two, sometimes three compressions, and started up the machine without difficulty, Mr. Randolph explained.
"Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane"
Roy Rockwood
The test to which these springs were subjected was to compress them until the coils touched each other, measuring the height of the spring after each test, and continuing the operation until at two consecutive tests the spring came back to its height before the two respective compressions.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided.
"A Tale of Two Cities A Story of the French Revolution"
Charles Dickens