Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for sending a stream of air outward.
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Examples
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But I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom of the sea, was obliged to shut my head like that of a diver in a ball of copper; and it is into this ball of copper that the two pipes, the inspirator and the expirator, open.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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But I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom of the sea, was obliged to shut my head, like that of a diver in a ball of copper; and it is to this ball of copper that the two pipes, the inspirator and the expirator, open.”
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But I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom of the sea, was obliged to shut my head, like that of a diver in a ball of copper; and it is to this ball of copper that the two pipes, the inspirator and the expirator, open. "
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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