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Blower

noun

A device that produces a current of air.

A fan run by an electric motor. Synonym: electric fan.

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals. Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal.

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"Blower" Quotes from Famous Books

... antitheses which we meet with in individual character we cannot help seeing on the larger stage of the world also, a moral accompanying a material development. History, the great satirist, brings together Alexander and the blower of peas to hint to us that the tube of the one and the sword of the other were equally transitory; but meanwhile Aristotle was conquering kingdoms out of the unknown, and establishing a dynasty of thought from whose hand the sceptre has not yet passed. So there are ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... of blow-gun, like the "bean-blower" formerly used by American boys, which was a tin pipe, or the "pea-shooter," an English plaything. It was used, it is said, by the Dyaks in former times; but recent travellers do not mention it as used by them. It is about eight feet long, and less than an inch in diameter, made of very hard ...

— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic

... the new hand revealed no temperamental proclivities, no "kid-glove" inclinations, seemingly content with washing down decks, lassooing pier bitts with the bight of a hawser at a distance of ten feet, and hauling ash-buckets from the fireroom when the blower was out of order—both of which last were made possible by his mighty shoulders—the Captain began to take a different sort of ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

... nook of the narrow lane that rises from the valley of Bern—was concerned about the future state of her son Joseph. Men who judged themselves worthy to counsel her gave her such counsels as these: "Blower bellows for the smith," ...

— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans

... silently he brushed the dust back into the blower and set the weights upon his scales. But McCaskey ran on with ...

— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

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