Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A recess or hollow in a sand-dune formed by the action of the wind in carrying away the lighter particles.
  • noun In electricity, a device for blowing out by an air-blast, a magnetic field, etc., the are formed in opening an electric circuit.
  • noun A feast; an entertainment; a great demonstration; a spree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of blowout.

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  • See, e.g., blowout penstemon.

    December 17, 2010

  • One of the blow-out grasses, Muhlenbergia pungens.

    September 22, 2021