blower
blower is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
- 2.A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
- 3.The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
- 4.(Zoöl.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
- 5.A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is a blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine called?
- What is the whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water called?
- What is a small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer called?
- What is a braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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