| 单词 | blower-engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblower-engine b. esp. An apparatus for creating an artificial current of air by pressure, used as a ventilator, dryer, etc., and to produce a blast of air in a furnace, etc. Also attributive, as blower-engine, blower-fan, blower-pipe. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Blower,..a fan used on board American river steam-boats, to increase the current of air. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 552/2 The rotary blower, invented by Messrs. Root of Connersville, Ind., is one which has of late years found extensive use both in America and Europe. 1900 Everybody's Mag. 3 528 The waves, breaking over the blower-pipes, poured through in such quantities as to dampen the belts of the blower-engine. 1903 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 6/3 The air is first filtered... Afterwards it passes through a blower-fan. 1958 Times 19 Aug. 11/7 The car..was fitted with a heater..and had a plastic knob for the blower. 1959 Listener 22 Jan. 159/2 Blowers which blast the snow into banks at the roadside. < as lemmas |
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