blower

Meaning

  1. A person who blows.
  2. A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
  3. Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
  4. Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
  5. (slang) Telephone.
  6. (slang) Telephone.
  7. A braggart, or loud talker.
  8. The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
  9. 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

21k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbləʊɚ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow + -er.

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