noun
- a person or thing that blows.
- a machine for supplying air at a moderate pressure, as to supply forced drafts or supercharge and scavenge diesel engines.
- snow blower.
- Mining. a jet of firedamp issuing from a crevice.
- Slang. a braggart.
- supercharger.
- Chiefly British Slang. a telephone.
noun
- a mechanical device, such as a fan, that blows
- a low-pressure rotary compressor, esp in a furnace or internal-combustion engineSee also supercharger
- an informal name for telephone
- an informal name for speaking tube
- an informal name for a whale 1
- mining a discharge of firedamp from a crevice
early 12c. (originally of horn-blowers), from Old English blawere, agent noun from blow (v.1). Of mechanical devices from 1795.