biler

‘If the biler of this vessel was Toe bust, sir,’ said his new acquaintance, ‘and Toe bust now, this would be a festival day in the calendar of despotism; pretty nigh equallin’, sir, in its effects upon the human race, our Fourth of glorious July.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

If I had a little biler inside of me, I'd turn omnibus, and week-days I'd run from Kensington to the Navy Yard, and Sundays I'd run to

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

He's made coffee and the mush is in the double-biler and the biscuits in the oven are just browning.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

I bet ye a fip ef hit wus a show with hosses an 'gals ur singin' niggurs he'd bust a biler to go.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

But about Mr. Tom, Miss, ” said Bob, speaking lower and looking serious, “he’s as close as a iron biler, he is; but I’m a ’cutish chap, an’ when I’ve left off carrying my pack, an’ am at a loose end, I’ve got more brains nor I know what to do wi’, an’ I’m forced to busy myself wi’ other folks’s insides.

IV. Brother and Sister. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917

He didn't keep blowin 'off steam about it the way I did -- my safety-valve's always open -- but he kept it all inside his biler and it's put his engine out of gear.

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But you needn't get red in the face and strain your biler just because I said that.

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Still, if a feller was condemned to live over a biler factory he wouldn't hanker to get a job IN it, would he?

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Martin Culpepper, who would saunter along when Barclay would limp by on Main Street, would call out after him, "Slow down, Johnnie, slow down, boy, or you'll bust a biler."

A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

"The biler is wore out," said the engineer, re-appearing after a hasty dive below.

Many Cargoes 1903