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View synonyms for blow down

blow down

verb

  1. to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

What precautions should you take to blow down a part of the water in your boiler while running with a good fire?

Well, do not the winds that shriek across this flat country blow down trees sometimes?

The grate is empty now, and lets the freezing draught blow down the chimney.

The window had been shut, so that the wind should not blow down these objects.

Any way, it was obliging enough to blow down a big tree, which fell upon the goat there, and finished her outright.

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