Definitions for scrubbers

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scrubbers scrub·ber

Spelling: [skruhb-er]

IPA: /ˈskrʌb ər/

Scrubbers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in scrubbers (bbcerrssu).

Definitions for scrubbers

noun

1. a person who scrubs.
2. a device or process for removing pollutants from smoke or gas produced by burning high-sulfur fuels.
3. a machine or appliance used in scrubbing:
4. a mongrel, especially a mongrel steer.
5. a thin or stunted steer.
6. Australian. an inhabitant of the bush. any domestic animal that has run off into the bush and become wild, especially a steer.
7. a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
8. a person who scrubs.
9. a device or process for removing pollutants from smoke or gas produced by burning high-sulfur fuels.
10. a machine or appliance used in scrubbing:
11. a mongrel, especially a mongrel steer.
12. a thin or stunted steer.
13. Australian. an inhabitant of the bush. any domestic animal that has run off into the bush and become wild, especially a steer.
14. a prostitute or promiscuous woman.

Origin of scrubbers

First recorded in 1830-40; scrub¹ + -er¹

Examples for scrubbers

Jemmy the scrubber, unable to imbue the rest of his watch with his own restless activity, gave me no peace night or day.

The next stage is the passage of the scrubber, filled with coke over which water perpetually flows.

The apparatus consequently supplies the place of the exhauster and the scrubber.

Seventh: Adjust the normal outflow of wash-water for the scrubber.

Here I am boxed up, like a scrubber in a pound, year after year—and years after that—for I don't know how long.

The scrubber is a vessel containing in its lower part water, W, supplied by a pipe, and having an overflow.

Most manufacturers, however, simply cool the gas in the washer or scrubber.

Later, when Louis came down from the roof, he slid along the landing on the soap the scrubber had left there.

One who is my neighbor is now scrubber and cleaner, and is happily friends with a 'concierge,' who allows her to aid him.

The final washing for ammonia is effected in an apparatus termed a “scrubber,” which is a cylindrical tower packed with boards in.

Most manufacturers, however, simply cool the gas in the washer or scrubber.

Here I am boxed up, like a scrubber in a pound, year after year—and years after that—for I don't know how long.

Jemmy the scrubber, unable to imbue the rest of his watch with his own restless activity, gave me no peace night or day.

The apparatus consequently supplies the place of the exhauster and the scrubber.

Seventh: Adjust the normal outflow of wash-water for the scrubber.

Later, when Louis came down from the roof, he slid along the landing on the soap the scrubber had left there.

The scrubber is a vessel containing in its lower part water, W, supplied by a pipe, and having an overflow.

The final washing for ammonia is effected in an apparatus termed a “scrubber,” which is a cylindrical tower packed with boards in.

The next stage is the passage of the scrubber, filled with coke over which water perpetually flows.

One who is my neighbor is now scrubber and cleaner, and is happily friends with a 'concierge,' who allows her to aid him.