What is the meaning of BLOWER. Phrases containing BLOWER
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Fail to turn up for a meeting
Telephone
 Informer. Also a disrepectful term for a girl.
telephone ‘She’s on the blower, again.’
Afterburner.
Blower on a locomotive boiler
Noun. The telephone. From the 'speaking tube', down which one blew to attract a person's attention prior to having a conversation through it. {Informal}
Use the blower to increase draft on the fire and thereby raise the steam pressure in the boiler. Also quit a job suddenly
The blower is British slang for telephone.
Telephone
Blower (for locomotive fire)
Blower is slang for a braggart, or loud talker. Blower is British slang for a telephone.Blower is nursing slang for a mechanical respirator.
Percy Thrower is London Cockney rhyming slang for telephone (blower). Percy Thrower is London Cockney rhyming slang for a lawnmower.
Percy is slang for the penis.Percy (shortened from Percy Thrower) is London Cockney rhyming slang for telephone (blower).
n telephone: just a second, IÂ’m on the blower. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. May stem from the days of party telephone lines, where people would blow into the mouthpiece in order to gently remind whoever was using the line that you wanted to too. Alternately, it may originate with the navy, where intra-ship communications operated using a similar system.
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A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
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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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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 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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A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
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A braggart, or loud talker.
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One who, or that which, blows.
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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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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 blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
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A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.
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