blower
Meaning
- A person who blows.
- A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
- Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
- Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
- (slang) Telephone.
- (slang) Telephone.
- A braggart, or loud talker.
- The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
- A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
Synonyms
electric fan
cetacean mammal
exhaust fan
air blower
blowing machine
Breton bagpipes
air blast
gas blower
exhaust blower
blast blower
blast engine
blast fan
pressure intensifier
compression engine
pressure booster
soot blower
air-blast gin
slag blower
soot lance
oxyacetylene blow pipe
pressurizing unit
pressure multiplier
air-blower
blast airfan
tuuletin
blast pipe
blowing engine
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbləʊɚ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow + -er.
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