Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A motor used for driving a blower or blowing-machine.
- noun A combined motor and blower.
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Examples
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It was the advance of the art of iron-working and its special application in the steam-engine that gave us the blowing-engine, and coal-blast furnace, which contributed in a main degree to our commercial resuscitation and our present strong position.
The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade William Stanley Jevons 1865
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Shortly after, his attention was directed by Mr. James Ewing to a defect in one of the Muirkirk blast-furnaces, situated about half a mile distant from the blowing-engine, which was found not to work so well as others which were situated close to it.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Shortly after, his attention was directed by Mr. James Ewing to a defect in one of the Muirkirk blast-furnaces, situated about half a mile distant from the blowing-engine, which was found not to work so well as others which were situated close to it.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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