Definitions for steam-boiler

steam-boiler steam boiler

Steam-Boiler is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 1897 anagrams from letters in steam-boiler (-abeeilmorst).

Definitions for steam-boiler

noun

  1. a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.

Origin of steam-boiler

First recorded in 1795-1805

Examples for steam-boiler

steam-boiler to generate steam for pasteurising, scalding, etc.

Fig. 108 represents such a steam-boiler in section, as it is usually exhibited in working drawings.

But the original source of all this energy is found far back of its first appearance in the steam-boiler.

This is probably the earliest record of a steam-boiler explosion.

In a moment I perceived that the steam-boiler, from which the tavern was warmed, had exploded.

In a steam-boiler the burning fuel is enclosed either by fire-brick or a "water-jacket," forming part of the boiler.

That part of the surface of a steam-boiler that receives heat on one side and has water on the other.

What the open door of the ash pit is to the furnace of a steam-boiler the open street door is to the house on fire.

His tongue, which had laid in a stock of nervous fluid for roaring like a steam-boiler a little opened, was palsied.

The largest shipments will be from the Gilman Mines for domestic and steam-boiler purposes.

Word Value for steam-boiler
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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