boiler : Idioms & Phrases

• noun (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port)
  auxiliary boiler.
  

WordNet

• the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues.
• the cylindrical part containing the flues.

Webster 1913

• plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc.

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• noun a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work
  overall; boilersuit.
  

WordNet

• one which consists of a single iron cylinder.

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• noun (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port)
  auxiliary boiler.
  

WordNet

• noun two saucepans, one fitting inside the other
  double saucepan.
  

WordNet

• . See under Boiler.

Webster 1913

• are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water.

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La"ca*shire boil"er

Definitions

1. . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

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• a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney.

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• . Same as Tubular boiler, below.

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• a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up.

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• the exterior of a steam boiler, forming a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical, or locomotive, boiler.

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• noun sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
  boiler.
  

WordNet

• a boiler for producing steam. See Boiler, 3, and Note. In the illustration, the shell a of the boiler is partly in section, showing the tubes, or flues, which the hot gases, from the fire beneath the boiler, enter, after traversing the outside of the shell, and through which the gases are led to the smoke pipe d, which delivers them to the chimney; b is the manhole; c the dome; e the steam pipe; f the feed and blow-off pipe; g the safety value; hthe water gauge.

Webster 1913

• a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam.

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• a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

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• . See the Note under Boiler, 3.

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