blower Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a device that produces a current of air
  2. noun a fan run by an electric motor
    electric fan.
  3. noun large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
    cetacean mammal; cetacean.

WordNet

Blow"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, blows.
  2. (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.
  3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
  4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
  5. (Zoöl.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
  6. A braggart, or loud talker. Slang Bartlett.

Webster 1913