boilermaker
[boi-ler-mey-ker]
- a person employed to make and repair boilers or other heavy metal items.
- whiskey with beer as a chaser.
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Origin of boilermaker
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Contemporary Examples
He was a construction worker, a boilermaker, with 20 years of experience building new power plants and doing repairs.
Historical Examples
A cotton-spinner cannot in a week or a month become a boilermaker.
Twentieth Century SocialismEdmond Kelly
She is somewhat over six feet six in height and built like a boilermaker.
A Parody Outline of HistoryDonald Ogden Stewart
Went from trackman to machinist's helper and boilermaker's helper.
Slave Narratives: Arkansas NarrativesWork Projects Administration
Near the captain sat his chum, John Barbot, the boilermaker of the isle of Rhe.
This engine of war, an invention of Master Barbot the boilermaker, received the name of the censer.
boilermaker
- a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- British slang a beer drink consisting of half of draught mild and half of bottled brown ale
- US slang a drink of whisky followed by a beer chaser
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