Blower

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1. Noun

One who, or that which, blows.

2. Noun

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

3. Noun

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

4. Noun

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

5. Noun

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

6. Noun

A braggart, or loud talker.

7. Noun

large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals
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