blower








noun

  1. a person or thing that blows.
  2. a machine for supplying air at a moderate pressure, as to supply forced drafts or supercharge and scavenge diesel engines.
  3. snow blower.
  4. Mining. a jet of firedamp issuing from a crevice.
  5. Slang. a braggart.
  6. supercharger.
  7. Chiefly British Slang. a telephone.

noun

  1. a mechanical device, such as a fan, that blows
  2. a low-pressure rotary compressor, esp in a furnace or internal-combustion engineSee also supercharger
  3. an informal name for telephone
  4. an informal name for speaking tube
  5. an informal name for a whale 1
  6. mining a discharge of firedamp from a crevice
n.

early 12c. (originally of horn-blowers), from Old English blawere, agent noun from blow (v.1). Of mechanical devices from 1795.

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