blow off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.57 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, off.
Example Sentences
- "She blew the dust off the cookbook, revealing its full title."
- "In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of loosening and blowing off the soot deposits."
- "A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity."
- "The radioactivity was released when they blew off steam from the containment vessel."
- "The engine or steamer is blowing off."
- "What's the best way to blow off and clean a boiler?"