Blower
['bləʊə] or ['bloɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, blows.
(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 blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you see glass-blowers at their work, denotes you will contemplate change in your business, which will appear for the better, but you will make it at a loss to yourself.
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Examples
- A brake was provided for in the specification, as were also variable gears for changing speed, and an automatic blower for the fire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You're a bridge-blower now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I soon discovered my mistake and found him to be train-bearer and organ-blower to a whole procession of people. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I named Sunday at two o'clock, and immediately handed over his note to Mr. Livius, the amateur play-writer, French horn-blower, lady-killer, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They are now dropped through a blower, where the sawdust is separated from the pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An electric blower exhausts all of the moisture from the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They are now specifically known by the name of the purpose to which they are applied, as air ship, ventilator, air brake, fan blower, air pistol, air spring, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This is seen in narrow stove chimneys, when a _sacheverell_ or blower is used, which still more contracts the narrow opening. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In the electric shop, motor-driven blowers carry fumes and dust away from the worker and bring fresh air in. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The tablets of the most ancient days of Egypt, yet recovered, show glass blowers at work at their trade--and the names of the first and original inventors are buried in oblivion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The blowers are two boxes, connected to the furnace by bamboo pipes, and provided with skin covers, which are alternately depressed by the feet and raised by cords from the spring poles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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