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soot blowers

soot blowers is the plural of soot blower.

Meaning of soot blower

Noun

soot blower (plural soot blowers)

  1. A device for directing a jet of steam on the boiler tubes of a steam boiler, so as to remove deposits of soot inside the tubes.
    • In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of...1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194

Questions about soot blowers

What is soot blowers the plural of?
Soot blowers is the plural of soot blower.

Words near soot blowers in the dictionary

  1. soosy
  2. soot
  3. soot ball
  4. soot balls
  5. soot blower
  6. soot blowers
  7. soot devil
  8. soot devils
  9. soot wart
  10. soot warts
  11. soot-ball

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