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blower

noun
/ˈbləʊ.ə/UK/ˈbloʊ.ɚ/US

Etymology

From blower, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.

  1. inherited from blāwere
  2. inherited from blowere

Definitions

  1. A person who blows.

  2. A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.

    • 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

  3. Any device that blows

    Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Telephone.

      • Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
      • I got off the blower oozing no confidence at all.

    2. A braggart, or loud talker.

    3. The whale

      The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.

    4. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus

      A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

    5. A gun.

    6. A surname originating as an occupation.

The neighborhood

  • neighborblowpipeequipment blowing air to fire

Derived

blower door, chunk-blower, hornblower, mindblower, safeblower, smoke-blower, smoke blower, snowblower, stoneblower, whistle-blower

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blower. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA