blowern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbləʊə/, U.S.

/ˈbloʊər/

Etymology: Old English bláwere , < bláwan to blow v.¹: see -er suffix¹.

1. gen. One who, or that which, blows. Usually followed by of (the object blown).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun]

blowerc897

bretheman?a1400

wait1510

town wait1541

winder1611

tooter1620

wind-instrumentalist1869

windjammer1880

horn1945

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvii. 268 Idel wæs se blawere.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 535 The best blower of horn.

1545 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 21 To the blower of the organs.

1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 67 An expert blower of the German flute.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 123 O hunter, and O blower of the horn.

2. spec. A marine animal which ‘blows’ (see blow v.¹ 5); e.g. a whale.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale)

whalec893

cethegrandec1220

baleen1387

whalefish?c1510

hurlpool1553

sog1839

blower1854

the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal > marine animal > with particular characteristics

leviathana1382

serpent1608

animal tree1823

blower1854

1854 J. S. Bushnan in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 140 The common cetaceans, popularly known as blowers.

a. A mechanical contrivance for producing a current of air; e.g. a plate or sheet of metal fixed before a fire to increase the draught.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air

blower1795

blaster1830

blowing-machine1835

blowing-engine1845

blast-engine1875

blast-fan1879

1795 Crook & German Specif. Patent 2032 The blower was let down close to the top of the grate, so that no air could pass otherwise than through the grate.

1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 344/1 It can..be hung in front of the fire to act as a blower.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blower, a fan or other apparatus for forcing air into a furnace or mine.

1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 8/1 The sweepings [were]..put through the blower instead of the winnower.

b. esp. An apparatus for creating an artificial current of air by pressure, used as a ventilator, dryer, etc., and to produce a blast of air in a furnace, etc. Also attributive, as blower-engine, blower-fan, blower-pipe.

ΚΠ

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Blower,..a fan used on board American river steam-boats, to increase the current of air.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 552/2 The rotary blower, invented by Messrs. Root of Connersville, Ind., is one which has of late years found extensive use both in America and Europe.

1900 Everybody's Mag. 3 528 The waves, breaking over the blower-pipes, poured through in such quantities as to dampen the belts of the blower-engine.

1903 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 6/3 The air is first filtered... Afterwards it passes through a blower-fan.

1958 Times 19 Aug. 11/7 The car..was fitted with a heater..and had a plastic knob for the blower.

1959 Listener 22 Jan. 159/2 Blowers which blast the snow into banks at the roadside.

c. A blowing-machine: (a) for cleansing and ‘opening’ the fibres of cotton or wool; (b) for cleansing and separating rabbit fur.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning > separating or cleaning with machine > machine

picker1795

wool-mill1819

blowing-machine1835

willow1835

willy1835

twilly1858

blower1867

wilger1871

shake willey1875

wolf1875

1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 46/2 The cotton or wool..is..taken to the ‘blower’ or ‘opener’, and being put into a shaft, is there acted upon by a stream of air..which blows it forward, removes extraneous matters, [etc.].

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Blower, a machine for separating the hair from the fur fibres [in hat-making].

d. In an aeroplane engine, esp. a supercharger.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > apparatus for increasing pressure

supercharger1917

blower1920

boost1931

turbocharger1934

turbosupercharger1938

turbo1957

1920 Flight 12 1004/2 A blower driven off the Renault engine was provided.

1922 Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. Techn. Rep. 1918–19 50 In connection with high altitude flying a large number of experiments have been carried out on different forms of blowers for aircraft engines.

1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 86 Further developments in scavenging and supercharging by auxiliary blowers.

1946 B. Sutton Jungle Pilot xiii. 66 At this height I found I could climb appreciably faster than the Tomahawks. This was due to my two-speed ‘blower’.

e. A speaking-tube or telephone. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone

telephone instrument1844

telephone1864

phone1884

telephone set1884

set?1891

tubec1899

handset1901

blower1922

the horn1945

satellite telephone1961

dog1979

satellite phone1982

society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > [noun] > speaking-tube

speaking-tube1833

telephone1849

conversation tube1890

blower1945

1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five xxx. 182 The club enjoyed a ‘blower service’. The ‘blower’ is difficult for the outsider to understand.

1926 E. Wallace More Educated Evans v. 121 I heard it on the telephone... They got that price from the blower round at the Arts Club.

1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang Blower, from the Naval sense, ‘telephone’ or, rather, the speaking-tube connecting Bridge and Engine-Room.

1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend vii. 217 ‘Somebody must have got on the blower from Bahrein.’.. He meant the radio telephone that connects the aerodromes all down the eastern route.

1957 ‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos iii. 24 I'd of said the old girl was always listenin' when there was anyone on the blower.

4. An escape of inflammable gas through a fissure in a coal-mine; the fissure itself; a similar current of air escaping through a fissure in a glacier.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for escape or draining of gas

blower1822

piper1883

top-head1883

the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > air escaping through fissure

blower1860

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for escape or draining of gas > escape of gas through

blower1866

1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 59 It is disengaged from fissures in the strata..called by the miners blowers.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps 87 While cutting away the surface further, I stopped the little ‘blower’.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 111 The explosive gas was issuing through a blower in the roof of the mine with a loud hissing noise.

1866 Reader 21 July 671 ‘Blowers’ as they are called in the north of England..streams of inflammable gas issuing from the ground.

5. figurative. A boaster. regional (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster

yelper1340

avaunterc1374

braggerc1390

fare-makerc1440

seggerc1440

shakerc1440

vaunter1484

roosera1500

praterc1500

cracker1509

vouster?a1513

boaster1574

Thrasoa1576

braggarta1577

braver1589

glorioser1589

bragout1592

rodomont1592

braggadocio1594

gloriosoc1599

puckfist1600

burgullian1601

puff1601

forthputtera1610

rodomontado1609

ostentator1611

fanfaron1622

potgun1623

thrasonist1626

cracka1640

vapourer1653

braggadocian1654

rodomontadist1655

charlatan1670

brag1671

rodomontade1683

gasconader1709

rodomontader1730

Gascon1757

spread eagle1809

bag of wind1816

penny trumpeter1828

spraga1838

gasser1855

blow-hard1857

blower1863

crower1864

gabber1869

flannel-mouth1882

punk-fist1890

skiter1898

Tartarin1903

blow1904

skite1906

poofter1916

trombenik1922

shooter of lines1941

fat-mouth1942

wide-mouth1959

Wheneye1982

trash talker1986

braggarist-

1863 Manhattan in Evening Standard 10 Dec. General Grant..is not one of the ‘blower’ generals.

1864 Spectator 22 Oct. 1202 1 Notorious among our bar and the public as a ‘blower’.

Compounds

With various adverbs (cf. blow v.¹), as blower forth, blower in, blower up.

ΚΠ

1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Mij Blowers forth of fayned fables.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 120 Blesse our poore Virginity from vnderminers and blowers vp.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 182 The windes..the blowers in of rain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	blower
释义	blowern.¹ Brit. /ˈbləʊə/, U.S. /ˈbloʊər/ Etymology: Old English bláwere , < bláwan to blow v.¹: see -er suffix¹. 1. gen. One who, or that which, blows. Usually followed by of (the object blown). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] blowerc897 bretheman?a1400 wait1510 town wait1541 winder1611 tooter1620 wind-instrumentalist1869 windjammer1880 horn1945 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvii. 268 Idel wæs se blawere. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 535 The best blower of horn. 1545 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 21 To the blower of the organs. 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 67 An expert blower of the German flute. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 123 O hunter, and O blower of the horn. 2. spec. A marine animal which ‘blows’ (see blow v.¹ 5); e.g. a whale. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) whalec893 cethegrandec1220 baleen1387 whalefish?c1510 hurlpool1553 sog1839 blower1854 the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal > marine animal > with particular characteristics leviathana1382 serpent1608 animal tree1823 blower1854 1854 J. S. Bushnan in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 140 The common cetaceans, popularly known as blowers. 3. a. A mechanical contrivance for producing a current of air; e.g. a plate or sheet of metal fixed before a fire to increase the draught. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air blower1795 blaster1830 blowing-machine1835 blowing-engine1845 blast-engine1875 blast-fan1879 1795 Crook & German Specif. Patent 2032 The blower was let down close to the top of the grate, so that no air could pass otherwise than through the grate. 1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 344/1 It can..be hung in front of the fire to act as a blower. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blower, a fan or other apparatus for forcing air into a furnace or mine. 1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 8/1 The sweepings [were]..put through the blower instead of the winnower. b. esp. An apparatus for creating an artificial current of air by pressure, used as a ventilator, dryer, etc., and to produce a blast of air in a furnace, etc. Also attributive, as blower-engine, blower-fan, blower-pipe. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Blower,..a fan used on board American river steam-boats, to increase the current of air. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 552/2 The rotary blower, invented by Messrs. Root of Connersville, Ind., is one which has of late years found extensive use both in America and Europe. 1900 Everybody's Mag. 3 528 The waves, breaking over the blower-pipes, poured through in such quantities as to dampen the belts of the blower-engine. 1903 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 6/3 The air is first filtered... Afterwards it passes through a blower-fan. 1958 Times 19 Aug. 11/7 The car..was fitted with a heater..and had a plastic knob for the blower. 1959 Listener 22 Jan. 159/2 Blowers which blast the snow into banks at the roadside. c. A blowing-machine: (a) for cleansing and ‘opening’ the fibres of cotton or wool; (b) for cleansing and separating rabbit fur. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning > separating or cleaning with machine > machine picker1795 wool-mill1819 blowing-machine1835 willow1835 willy1835 twilly1858 blower1867 wilger1871 shake willey1875 wolf1875 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 46/2 The cotton or wool..is..taken to the ‘blower’ or ‘opener’, and being put into a shaft, is there acted upon by a stream of air..which blows it forward, removes extraneous matters, [etc.]. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Blower, a machine for separating the hair from the fur fibres [in hat-making]. d. In an aeroplane engine, esp. a supercharger. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > apparatus for increasing pressure supercharger1917 blower1920 boost1931 turbocharger1934 turbosupercharger1938 turbo1957 1920 Flight 12 1004/2 A blower driven off the Renault engine was provided. 1922 Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. Techn. Rep. 1918–19 50 In connection with high altitude flying a large number of experiments have been carried out on different forms of blowers for aircraft engines. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 86 Further developments in scavenging and supercharging by auxiliary blowers. 1946 B. Sutton Jungle Pilot xiii. 66 At this height I found I could climb appreciably faster than the Tomahawks. This was due to my two-speed ‘blower’. e. A speaking-tube or telephone. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone telephone instrument1844 telephone1864 phone1884 telephone set1884 set?1891 tubec1899 handset1901 blower1922 the horn1945 satellite telephone1961 dog1979 satellite phone1982 society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > [noun] > speaking-tube speaking-tube1833 telephone1849 conversation tube1890 blower1945 1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five xxx. 182 The club enjoyed a ‘blower service’. The ‘blower’ is difficult for the outsider to understand. 1926 E. Wallace More Educated Evans v. 121 I heard it on the telephone... They got that price from the blower round at the Arts Club. 1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang Blower, from the Naval sense, ‘telephone’ or, rather, the speaking-tube connecting Bridge and Engine-Room. 1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend vii. 217 ‘Somebody must have got on the blower from Bahrein.’.. He meant the radio telephone that connects the aerodromes all down the eastern route. 1957 ‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos iii. 24 I'd of said the old girl was always listenin' when there was anyone on the blower. 4. An escape of inflammable gas through a fissure in a coal-mine; the fissure itself; a similar current of air escaping through a fissure in a glacier. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for escape or draining of gas blower1822 piper1883 top-head1883 the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > air escaping through fissure blower1860 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for escape or draining of gas > escape of gas through blower1866 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 59 It is disengaged from fissures in the strata..called by the miners blowers. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps 87 While cutting away the surface further, I stopped the little ‘blower’. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 111 The explosive gas was issuing through a blower in the roof of the mine with a loud hissing noise. 1866 Reader 21 July 671 ‘Blowers’ as they are called in the north of England..streams of inflammable gas issuing from the ground. 5. figurative. A boaster. regional (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster yelper1340 avaunterc1374 braggerc1390 fare-makerc1440 seggerc1440 shakerc1440 vaunter1484 roosera1500 praterc1500 cracker1509 vouster?a1513 boaster1574 Thrasoa1576 braggarta1577 braver1589 glorioser1589 bragout1592 rodomont1592 braggadocio1594 gloriosoc1599 puckfist1600 burgullian1601 puff1601 forthputtera1610 rodomontado1609 ostentator1611 fanfaron1622 potgun1623 thrasonist1626 cracka1640 vapourer1653 braggadocian1654 rodomontadist1655 charlatan1670 brag1671 rodomontade1683 gasconader1709 rodomontader1730 Gascon1757 spread eagle1809 bag of wind1816 penny trumpeter1828 spraga1838 gasser1855 blow-hard1857 blower1863 crower1864 gabber1869 flannel-mouth1882 punk-fist1890 skiter1898 Tartarin1903 blow1904 skite1906 poofter1916 trombenik1922 shooter of lines1941 fat-mouth1942 wide-mouth1959 Wheneye1982 trash talker1986 braggarist- 1863 Manhattan in Evening Standard 10 Dec. General Grant..is not one of the ‘blower’ generals. 1864 Spectator 22 Oct. 1202 1 Notorious among our bar and the public as a ‘blower’. Compounds With various adverbs (cf. blow v.¹), as blower forth, blower in, blower up. ΚΠ 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Mij Blowers forth of fayned fables. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 120 Blesse our poore Virginity from vnderminers and blowers vp. View more context for this quotation 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 182 The windes..the blowers in of rain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). blowern.² Etymology: < blow v.² + -er suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblower. A plant which blows or blooms. (Cf. bloomer n.¹ 1a.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > flower or plant esteemed for its blossoms flower?a1513 bloomer1736 blower1796 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] flower?a1513 gentle-heart1648 bloomer1736 blower1796 phaenogam1846 phanerogam1861 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xix. 403 Biennial and perennial flowers, of the late blowers, may yet be transplanted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹c897n.²1796
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blowern.1

Compounds

blowern.2

blowern.¹

blowern.²