muffler

[muhf-ler]

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noun

a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.

any of various devices for deadening sound, as the sound of escaping gases of an internal-combustion engine.

anything used for muffling.

Armor. a mittenlike glove worn with a mail hauberk.

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Origin:
1525–35; muffle + -er¹

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muffler (ˈmʌflə)

—n
1.	a thick scarf, collar, etc
2.	(US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): silencer any device designed to reduce noise, esp the tubular device containing baffle plates in the exhaust system of a motor vehicle
3.	something that muffles

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muffler

1530s as a kind of scarf, from muffle; as an automobile exhaust system silencer, it is attested from 1895.

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