reboiler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From re- + boiler.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re