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boiler
  1. A steam boiler.
  2. An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
  3. A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
  4. A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
  5. A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
  6. (Britain, informal) A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “He worked as a First Class Stoker in the boiler room, switching to loading ammunition magazines when on action stations.”
      “An integral back boiler provides domestic hot water and heats the radiators, which then provide central heating.”
      “A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves.”
boilerplate
  1. A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
  2. The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
  3. A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
  4. (computing) Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
  5. (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “I was tired of rewriting the same contract clauses over and over again, so I created a boilerplate to easily insert them into new documents.”
boll
  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  2. (Scotland) An old dry measure, equal to six bushels.
boilermaker
  1. A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
  2. (US) A whiskey with a beer chaser.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was regularly exposed to asbestos in the course of his employments as a boilermaker.”
      “A boilermaker breaks loose the tender hose bag and turns shop water up the feed pipe into the boiler.”
      “A boilermaker and ship fitter by trade, he has had progressively responsible roles up to and including Vice President of Repair for Intermarine.”
boilerhouse
  1. The deckhouse above a ship's boiler and engine room.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There is a walled concrete courtyard with a garage, boilerhouse and coalhouse to the back.”
      “Install a new main Automatic Control panel in the boilerhouse to control the boilers, pumps and pressurisation unit.”
      “With both Timani and Simmons out, it remains to be seen who will pack down alongside Nathan Sharpe in the boilerhouse against Wales.”
bolling
  1. A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I could imagine what it would be like to have that dog bolling his way down the mall hallway, sniffing people's rears and grabbing bags out of unsuspecting hands.”
      Bolling Coffee, of Bent Ley Road, was named supplier of the year at Fortnum and Mason's first-ever supplier conference.”
      “Not pretend racism has all gone away, as your colleague Eric Bolling believes.”
boilersmith
  1. One who builds or repairs boilers; a boilerman.
boilerman
  1. A person who tends the fire for a steam engine
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When the war in Korea began he was recalled by the Navy, serving as a boilerman technician. He came to New York in 1952, joined the Actors Studio and began to get parts both onstage and in films.”
      “He became an apprentice pipe fitter, and later worked in a dairy and took jobs as a boilerman and firefighter.”
boiler
  1. (rare, informal) Boilerplate.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He worked as a First Class Stoker in the boiler room, switching to loading ammunition magazines when on action stations.”
      “An integral back boiler provides domestic hot water and heats the radiators, which then provide central heating.”
      “A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves.”
boilersmiths
  1. plural of boilersmith
boilerplates
boilerhouses
  1. plural of boilerhouse
boilermakers
  1. plural of boilermaker
  2. Examples:
    1. “The pipe fitters, welders and boilermakers walked off sites two months ago to protest their treatment.”
      “Valiant and Worcester Bosch are two condenser boilermakers that are recommended time and again in research.”
      “Very soon he had opened his own mobile welding company and recounted taking a team of boilermakers to Tarcoola in the Simpson Desert.”
boilermen
bollings
  1. plural of bolling
boilers
  1. plural of boiler
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor winch, chains and anchors.”
      “The boilers were fired by oil, and the rectangular tanks can be found tight against either side of the hull.”
      “This building houses the boilers, chillers, tanks, and distribution equipment.”
bolls
  1. plural of boll
  2. Examples:
    1. “By maturity, the mutant seeds had only produced a few short fibres and the seeds were visible from the mature cotton bolls.”
      “Another redhead came and both of them widened their eyes in unison, looking more and more like two bolls of cotton, when they saw me.”
      “Additional labor allows the initiation of cotton harvest to begin 2 weeks later, which leads to more open bolls.”
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