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puffer

[ puhf-er ]

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noun

a person or thing that puffs.
Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, the spines in the skin becoming erected: several species contain the potent nerve poison tetrodotoxin.
a warm and lightweight jacket, coat, or vest with sections separated by quilted stitching and filled with down or synthetic fibers.

puffer

/ ˈpʌfə /

a person or thing that puffs
Also calledglobefish any marine plectognath fish of the family Tetraodontidae, having an elongated spiny body that can be inflated to form a globe

Origin of puffer¹

First recorded in 1620–30; puff + -er ¹

Asked what three items he still had to have in his suitcase, Zee said: “The boots, the puffer jacket, and a pair of solid jeans.”

The Herland 33-inch pole high-pressure expansive steam puffer-engine commenced its up-stroke with steam of 150 lbs.

We could hear the puffer blowing at Gurlyn, five or six miles from the Herland Mine.

This high-pressure puffer pumping engine at Greenwich, in 1803, worked a pump of 18 inches in diameter.

At that time one of his high-pressure puffer-engines, with a cylindrical boiler and internal tube, was working in Staffordshire.

The Greenwich high-pressure puffer-engine did fourteen millions of duty with a bushel of coals, 84 lbs.

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