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blower
n.
bellows, machine for blowing air
Blower
Blower may refer to:
- USS Blower (SS-325), a submarine of the United States Navy
- a ducted centrifugal fan, especially when used in a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system
- a supercharger on an internal-combustion engine
- a device to increase the draught of a locomotive (see blastpipe)
- the telephone, for which the blower is a slang term, especially in the United Kingdom. The slang came from the Royal Naval ships prior to telephones. Communication was direct, through a voice pipe. The pipe had a whistle inserted at each end. When a message was to be passed, the caller would remove the whistle at his end, place his mouth into the cavity, sealing it. He would then blow hard. The whistle at the other end would attract the man on watch. He would remove his whistle and call into the pipe. Conversations over, both whistles were replaced.
- Party blower a device for making noises at a party.
- Leaf blower, a gardening tool
- Heterodon platirhinos, a.k.a. the eastern hog-nosed snake, found in North America
- Blower (surname)
- Henry Blofeld (born 1939), British sports journalist nicknamed "BLOWER"
- a braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
blower
Noun
1. a device that produces a current of air
(hypernym) device
(hyponym) hand blower, blow dryer, blow drier, hair dryer, hair drier
(derivation) blow
2. a fan run by an electric motor
(synonym) electric fan
(hypernym) fan
(part-meronym) electric motor
(derivation) blow
3. a mechanical device that blows air onto a fire to make it burn more fiercely
(synonym) bellows
(hypernym) mechanical device
(derivation) blow
4. large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
(synonym) cetacean, cetacean mammal
(hypernym) aquatic mammal
(hyponym) whale
(member-holonym) Cetacea, order Cetacea
(part-meronym) fluke
Blower
(n.)
The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
(n.)
One who, or that which, blows.
(n.)
A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A braggart, or loud talker.
(n.)
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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