Bowser

Quick meaning: Bowser is a noun meaning (now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.

Meaning

(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.

More Meanings

1. A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
2. (Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.
3. (British) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.

Example Sentences

The water bowser needed filling.

The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.

‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said[…].

2010, David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields, footnote citing 1926 report, page 309, The Moree Municipal Council decided to devote the revenue derived from the rent of the bowser petrol pumps within the municipality for this year, which amounted to forty guineas.

Word Forms

• bowsers
• bowzer

Related Words

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