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noun

Blower n.

One who, or that which, blows.

(Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as:

(a)

A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire.

(b)

A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

The whale; so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

(Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

A braggart, or loud talker. (Slang)

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"Blower" Quotes from Famous Books

... St. John, the little glass-blower," said Edwards, as he sat up on a roll of bedding. "He's dead long ago. Died at our camp. I did something for him that I've often wondered who would do the same for me—I closed his eyes when he died. You know he came to us with the mark on his brow. ...

— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams

... said Wilderspin, 'has the spirit-world neglected the education of the apostle of spiritual beauty. I became a "blower" in the smithy. As a child, from early sunrise till nearly midnight, I blew the bellows for eighteen pence a week. But long before I could read or write my mother knew that I was set apart for great things. She knew, from the profiles I used to trace with the point of a nail on the smithy walls, ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

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