headbolt heater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of block heater that consists of a hollow headbolt which contains an electric heating element.
Example Sentences
- "The headbolt heater consists of a hollow steel bolt containing an electric heating element. This device is designed to heat the water jacket and is applied to the engine head by replacing a headbolt."
- "Second we were told that the company in all fairness, with winter almost on us, should provide headbolt heaters for employees' cars in the parking lot. A headbolt heater, in case you don't know about life in the frigid zone, is a gadget that you plug into a parked car. So if it's forty below that day, your car will still be reasonably warm when you're ready to go home. It might even start."
- "Plugging the bus into the headbolt heater on the rail, she collected the pup's body from beneath the driver's seat and followed Toni into camp."