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Lancashire boilers

Lancashire boilers is the plural of Lancashire boiler.

Meaning of Lancashire boiler

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

Questions about Lancashire boilers

What is Lancashire boilers the plural of?
Lancashire boilers is the plural of Lancashire boiler.

Words near Lancashire boilers in the dictionary

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

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