Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soot blower

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English

Syllables: soot blow-er
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device for directing a jet of steam on the boiler tubes of a steam boiler, so as to remove deposits of soot inside the tubes.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

soot blowers (plural)

Questions

What does soot blower mean?: A device for directing a jet of steam on the boiler tubes of a steam boiler, so as to remove deposits of soot inside the tubes.

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