smoke blower
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
noun
A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
noun
One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, blower; A person who blows smoke, especially one who blows smoke rings.
Example Sentences
- "He is also the inventor of a very efficient smoke blower, which sucks smoke out of a room at the rate of one thousand feet per minute."
- "You can use an existing local exhaust hood in the room to prevent buildup of CO2 concentration or use a smoke blower exhausting the room."
- "Each turret is to be provided with a smoke blower capable of delivering approximately 600 cubic feet of air at 13-oz. pressure;"
- "Electrically-Operated Auxiliaries: Ventilation, shunt wound; Total ventilation; Ammunition hoist, shunt wound; […] Smoke blower, shunt wound."
- "Each turret also has a washing-out system for each gun and an electric smoke blower for blowing the smoke and gases from the bore of the guns."
- "The main object of designing this smoke blower is to avoid the setting of fires and also to avoid the throwing of cinders onto the train, and no fires have been set by an engine equipped with this apparatus, and the trains are perfectly free from dirt, no cinders whatever being thrown."