Blower

/ˈbləʊ.ə/ · noun

Meaning

A person who blows..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who blows.
2. (mining) 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. (slang, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone.
5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
6. (nautical) The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
8. (US, slang) A gun.

Example Sentences

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.

Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

I got off the blower oozing no confidence at all.

There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.

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