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Lancashire boiler

Lancashire boiler noun: a steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end to the other.

lancashire boiler: a steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end...
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Noun

Lancashire boiler (plural Lancashire boilers)

  1. A steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end to the other.
    • The beam is used to drive two pumps, one supplying water from the reservoir to the condenser, and the other the feed pump supplying the Lancashire boiler, and the condenser itself.1951 July, W. R. Watson, “An Edge Hill Beam Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 490

Lancashire boiler meaning in Tamil

Lancashire boiler in Tamil

லங்காசயர் கொதிகலன்

Forms of Lancashire boiler

pluralLancashire boilers

Questions about Lancashire boiler

What does Lancashire boiler mean?
Lancashire boiler means a steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end to the other.
What is Lancashire boiler in Tamil?
Lancashire boiler in Tamil is லங்காசயர் கொதிகலன். See Lancashire boiler meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Lancashire boiler?
Lancashire boiler is a noun.
What is the plural of Lancashire boiler?
The plural of Lancashire boiler is Lancashire boilers.

Words near Lancashire boiler in the dictionary

  1. lancang
  2. lancangs
  3. lancaran
  4. lancarans
  5. Lancashire
  6. Lancashire boiler
  7. Lancashire boilers
  8. Lancashire Heeler
  9. Lancashire Heelers
  10. Lancashire hotpot
  11. Lancashire hotpots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lancashire boiler (page history and authors); lancashire boiler (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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