Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ventilating-machine used, especially on shipboard, to draw off foul air.
- noun A machine for producing a blast by compressing air for use in urging the fire of a furnace.
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Examples
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A subsequent step of economy has been the utilization of the waste gases of the blast-furnace in heating the blast, or the boilers of the steam engines which drive the blast-engine.
The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865
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Wilkinson was another great promoter of the iron manufacture, and his success arose from applying the steam-engine directly to work the blast-engine of his furnace near Bilston in Staffordshire. [
The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865
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