Blower

Quick meaning: Blower is a noun meaning A person who blows.

Meaning

A person who blows.

More Meanings

1. (mining) A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
2. Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
3. (nautical) The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
4. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
5. (US, slang) A gun.
6. (slang, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone.
7. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.

Example Sentences

I got off the blower oozing no confidence at all.

Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years

The locomotive […] was quietly "blowing off" on one Ross "pop" valve, whilst the rhythmic clanging of the fireman's shovel, the black smoke pouring from her chimney, and the harsh sound of the blower told of the proximity of departure time.

Word Forms

• blowers

Synonyms for blower

Depending on context, synonyms include feeder, bellows, cetacean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bellows, cetacean, vent, spray, whistle, squealer.

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