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lər noun
1.
a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which steam or other vapor is generated from water to drive turbines or engines, supply heat, process certain materials, etc. Compare fire-tube boiler, water-tube boiler.
2.
a vessel, as a kettle, for boiling or heating.
3.
British. a large tub in which laundry is boiled or sterilized.
4.
a tank in which water is heated and stored, as for supplying hot water.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a closed vessel or arrangement of enclosed tubes in which water is heated to supply steam to drive an engine or turbine or provide heat |
| 2. | a domestic device burning solid fuel, gas, or oil, to provide hot water, esp for central heating |
| 3. | a large tub for boiling laundry |
| 4. | a tough old chicken for cooking by boiling |
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Word Origin & History
boiler
c.1540, from boil (v.). Meaning "vessel for boiling" is from 1725; steam engine sense is from 1757. Boilermaker "shot of whiskey with a glass of beer" is short for boilermaker's delight (1910), strong cheap whiskey, so called in jest from the notion that it would clean the
scales from the interior of a boiler.
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Example sentences
The boiler doesn't provide enough pressure to reach the last floor.
He found a boiler room full of athletic-looking graduates pounding the phones.
But when you need a new boiler, you kind of have to have it right now.
Cook milk thirty minutes in double boiler, with fine bread crumbs and onion stuck with cloves.
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