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blowing house

blowing house noun: a building traditionally used for smelting tin in Cornwall and Devon, England, containing a furnace and a pair of bellows powered by an adjacent water wheel.

Noun

blowing house (plural blowing houses)

  1. A building traditionally used for smelting tin in Cornwall and Devon, England, containing a furnace and a pair of bellows powered by an adjacent water wheel.
    Synonyms:
    blowing mill

Synonyms of blowing house

Forms of blowing house

pluralblowing houses

Questions about blowing house

What does blowing house mean?
Blowing house means a building traditionally used for smelting tin in Cornwall and Devon, England, containing a furnace and a pair of bellows powered by an adjacent water wheel.
What part of speech is blowing house?
Blowing house is a noun.
What is the plural of blowing house?
The plural of blowing house is blowing houses.

Words near blowing house in the dictionary

  1. blowing cave
  2. blowing chunks
  3. blowing down
  4. blowing from a gun
  5. blowing hot and cold
  6. blowing house
  7. blowing houses
  8. blowing in
  9. blowing into
  10. blowing it
  11. blowing it out one's ass

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