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English : derivative of the personal name Pell.German (Pullmann) : variant of Puhlmann, itself a variant of Puhl.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a bottle blower, from German Pulle ‘bottle’ + Mann ‘man’.
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English : from Middle English blÅwere ‘one who blows’. The name was applied chiefly to someone who operated a bellows, either as a blacksmith’s assistant or to provide wind for a church organ. In other cases it was applied to someone who blew a horn, i.e. a huntsman or a player of the musical instrument.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ab Llywarch ‘son of Llywarch’. Compare Flower.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : patronymic from Blower 1.
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English and German
English and German : metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower, from Old English glæs ‘glass’ (akin to Glad, referring originally to the bright shine of the material), Middle High German glas.Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’ or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.German : altered form of the personal name Klass, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Glass ‘glass’, or a metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.
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Northern English : probably a habitational name from a minor place in Soulby, Cumbria, called Longthorn, from Old English lang ‘long’ + horn ‘projecting headland’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.English : nickname from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + horn ‘horn’, with various possible applications; it could have denoted a horn blower or possibly a cuckhold, or it may have referred to some physical characteristic; there is some suggestion that horn in some names may mean ‘head’ or otherwise ‘phallus’.Danish : habitational name from Langhorn.Dutch : nickname for someone with long ears.
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English : from Middle English blowe, blaa, bloo ‘pale’, hence a nickname for someone with an exceptionally pale complexion.Americanized spelling of French Bleau.
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English
English : habitational name from Glascote near Tamworth in Staffordshire, named from Old English glæs ‘glass’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘shelter’; it was probably once a site inhabited by a glass blower.Welsh : habitational name from Glascoed in Monmouthshire (Gwent), named from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’ + coed ‘wood’. This name is also found in Ireland and may also have been brought to the U.S. from there.
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English (of Cornish origin)
English (of Cornish origin) : metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.Scottish : reduced form of McGlasson.French and Swiss French : from a diminutive of glace ‘ice’, hence a nickname for a cold person.
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English
English : variant spelling of Blow.
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One who, or that which, blows.
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A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.
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A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
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Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.
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Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
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A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
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A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
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A braggart, or loud talker.
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Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
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The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
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A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
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Alt. of Blowess
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A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.