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Rupert Gascoigne is dead--drowned, as you know, fourteen years ago But this visitor knew him--he knows of my connection with him.

—The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood

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That has been drenched or submerged, as drowned lands; also, that has perished by drowning.
Drowned boiler. A type of sectional boiler in which the evaporating units deliver the steam formed in them into a drum or chamber below the level of the water in the latter: distinguished from a ‘foaming’ boiler, in which each unit disengages from the area of its own cross-section only, or above the water-level of the steam-and-water drum. The Belleville boiler belongs to what is called the “foaming” class. This epithet is not applied as a mark of disparagement in any way, but simply to distinguish it from the “drowned” class. The difference between the two is that, whereas in the “foaming” class the tubes deliver the steam above the water level in the large steam drum, in the “drowned” type the steam is delivered in the drum below the water line. Sci. Amer. Sup., Dec. 27, 1902, p. 22566.
Drowned boiler. A fire-tube upright boiler in which the tubes forming the heating-surface are surrounded for their whole length by the water to be evaporated, instead of projecting for part of their length above the normal water-level. This construction diminishes the tendency to leakage at the upper tube-sheet, because the tubes are not subject to such wide ranges of temperature change, and to such changes of length relatively to the outer shell, as the fire varies in intensity or the water-level is carelessly lowered.

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But it's all ended now--drowned in the water, I think. — A harum-scarum schoolgirl
When they were drowned, the little seal changed back into a boy and walked home over the water without wetting his feet. — A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
La Ronde Denys says that nearly one thousand men were drowned, and that about two thousand died of injuries received. — A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
If I had been found drowned, the cause of my death would have been rum!" — Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
One of them was drowned, and the other only owed his life to aid brought him by the smugglers. — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873

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