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reboiler

verb

Etymology

From re- + boiler.

  1. inherited from *būlijō✻
  2. inherited from bȳl
  3. inherited from bile
  4. suffixed as boiler — “boil + er”
  5. prefixed as reboiler — “re + boiler”

Definitions

  1. To equip with a new boiler.

    • Whereas nearly all of about 20 pre-1860 locomotives existing in this country have been reframed, reboilered, or in other respects lost their identity through reconstruction […]
    • She lasted until 1949 and was never reboilered to class J3.
    • Her engines gave constant trouble and she was reboilered with higher-pressure units in 1878.

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