Meaning of smoke blower | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various devices that use a powerful fan to clear an area of smoke.
2. A device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.
3. A device to clear the engine of a coal-powered locomotive of the smoke and cinders resulting from burning coal.
4. A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
5. A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
6. One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, blower; A person who blows smoke, especially one who blows smoke rings.

Examples

“He is also the inventor of a very efficient smoke blower, which sucks smoke out of a room at the rate of one thousand feet per minute.”

“You can use an existing local exhaust hood in the room to prevent buildup of CO2 concentration or use a smoke blower exhausting the room.”

“Each turret is to be provided with a smoke blower capable of delivering approximately 600 cubic feet of air at 13-oz. pressure;”

“Electrically-Operated Auxiliaries: Ventilation, shunt wound; Total ventilation; Ammunition hoist, shunt wound; […] Smoke blower, shunt wound.”

“Each turret also has a washing-out system for each gun and an electric smoke blower for blowing the smoke and gases from the bore of the guns.”

“The main object of designing this smoke blower is to avoid the setting of fires and also to avoid the throwing of cinders onto the train, and no fires have been set by an engine equipped with this apparatus, and the trains are perfectly free from dirt, no cinders whatever being thrown.”

“I have fired one locomotive, a switch engine, that had a very large blower on, and the injector was working pretty fair, and with this blower working and the engine working , I had to be on the job all the time; the smoke blower was working hard, and it used the water about as fast as this injector would pump the water into the boiler.”

“she had dark hair and quick, brown eyes, her cheeks were very pink, and one of them was decorated with a black smudge from the smoke blower.”

“The hollow limbs of old gums often sheltered a hive, and he always carried an axe and a smoke blower when I drove him through the bush.”

“Armed with a smoke blower, he was good at capturing the bees.”

“Burrow entrance mapping, using a smoke blower, suggested that hibernacula more than 15 m apart were not within the same burrow system, although burrow systems covering more than 20 m were recorded (Young, 1988).”

“At the start of the operation, the smoke blower is located over the manhole (Figure 5.36) and the ends of the pipes plugged at the next adjacent manholes.”

“The testing is conducted by introducing a nontoxic liquid smoke or candle to the collection system and forcing smoke through the main line and service lines with a portable smoke blower.”

“The smoke blower is set up at an open maintenance hole.”

“The smoke blower is the b.s. artist or great pretender par excellence.”

“At first, DePenta seemed like just another smoke blower.”

“But, knowing that, don't blow smoke, either, because I will find it and then I will consider you a 'smoke blower.'”

“The most heinous cigarette smoke blower, the No. 1 criminal in this line, is Arthur Godfrey, who is in the hire of Chesterfield.”

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