English Dictionary

smoke blower

noun

Device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.

The smoke from the fire was blown away by a powerful blower.

意味（1）

Device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.

Each turret is to be provided with a smoke blower capable of delivering approximately 600 cubic feet of air at 13-oz. pressure;

意味（2）

Device to clear the engine of a coal-powered locomotive of the smoke and cinders resulting from burning coal.

The main object of designing this smoke blower is to avoid the setting of fires and also to avoid the throwing of cinders onto the train, and no fires have been set by an engine equipped with this apparatus, and the trains are perfectly free from dirt, no cinders whatever being thrown.

意味（3）

(beekeeping) A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.

she had dark hair and quick, brown eyes, her cheeks were very pink, and one of them was decorated with a black smudge from the smoke blower.

意味（4）

A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.

Burrow entrance mapping, using a smoke blower, suggested that hibernacula more than 15 m apart were not within the same burrow system, although burrow systems covering more than 20 m were recorded (Young, 1988).

意味（5）

One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.

The smoke blower is the b.s. artist or great pretender par excellence.

意味（6）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, blower.; A person who blows smoke, especially one who blows smoke rings.

The most heinous cigarette smoke blower, the No. 1 criminal in this line, is Arthur Godfrey, who is in the hire of Chesterfield.