smokeblower

Noun

smoke blower (plural smoke blowers)

1. Any of various devices that use a powerful fan to clear an area of smoke.
   • He is also the inventor of a very efficient smoke blower, which sucks smoke out of a room at the rate of one thousand feet per minute.1930, The American Magazine, volume 109, page 78
   1. A device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.
      • Each turret is to be provided with a smoke blower capable of delivering approximately 600 cubic feet of air at 13-oz. pressure;1902, United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Specifications for Building Twin-screw Armored Battle Ship, page 178
   2. A device to clear the engine of a coal-powered locomotive of the smoke and cinders resulting from burning coal.
      • The main object of designing this smoke blower is to avoid the setting of fires and also to avoid the throwing of cinders onto the train, and no fires have been set by an engine equipped with this apparatus, and the trains are perfectly free from dirt, no cinders whatever being thrown.1893 February, F.A., “Technical”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, volume 27, number 2, page 160
2. A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
   • she had dark hair and quick, brown eyes, her cheeks were very pink, and one of them was decorated with a black smudge from the smoke blower.1921, Cornelia Meigs, The Windy Hill, page 21
3. A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
   • Burrow entrance mapping, using a smoke blower, suggested that hibernacula more than 15 m apart were not within the same burrow system, although burrow systems covering more than 20 m were recorded (Young, 1988).1990, The American Midland Naturalist - Volumes 123-124, page 362
4. One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.
   • The smoke blower is the b.s. artist or great pretender par excellence.1981, Maurice F. Villeré, Transactional Analysis at Work, page 98

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