Definitions for boilers

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boilers boil·er

Spelling: [boi-ler]

IPA: /ˈbɔɪ lər/

Boilers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in boilers (beilors).

Definitions for boilers

noun

1. a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which steam or other vapor is generated from water to drive turbines or engines, supply heat, process certain materials, etc. Compare fire-tube boiler, water-tube boiler.
2. a vessel, as a kettle, for boiling or heating.
3. British. a large tub in which laundry is boiled or sterilized.
4. a tank in which water is heated and stored, as for supplying hot water.

Origin of boilers

First recorded in 1530-40; boil¹ + -er¹

Examples for boilers

The boiler leaked at nearly every hole where a tap had been screwed into it.

Workers on the iron horse shoveled coal into a boiler, which propelled the engine and sent steam and smoke billowing into the sky.

It's much better you didn't recognise us; these boiler explosions are so messy.

Patterson made the boiler plate "Palin comparison" pun and got a few generous laughs from the jubilant crowd.

She held on to the hair as Hayden led her further back into the boiler room.

The only resource he had, was to consult the boiler, and wait impatiently for Barnaby's return.

The water was inside the tubes, and the fire of the boiler outside.

They look at each other meaningfully—and repair to the boiler room for some torrid sex.

“Hayden took J.W. into a boiler room in the City of Ferguson jail,” the papers charge.

It was red from heat, and the water was bubbling away in its boiler.