steam boiler
noun
a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
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steam-boilernouna vessel in which water is boiled to generate steam. An industrial boiler usually consists of a system of parallel tubes through which water passes, suspended above a furnace
steam boiler
Americannoun
steam-boiler
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of steam boiler
First recorded in 1795–1805
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Its original milling machinery was later adapted for operation by steam power and the 19th Century vertical steam boiler and chimney have survived.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
The dedicated and powerful steam boiler means you can have steam and hot water ready to go right after pulling your shots.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
If this happens, you need to immediately shove a milk carafe under the steam wand to catch the resulting superheated water as it empties the steam boiler.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
A good example of the latter is the steam boiler explosion commission, appointed by Congress to investigate such accidents and discussed in Scientific American's issue of March 23, 1878.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2020
Constructed out of a forty-foot-long cylindrical steam boiler, the Hunley was designed for an eight-man crew—seven to turn the hand-cranked propeller and a commander to control the steering and the depth.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
His early patents bore the marks of his experience working on trains: more-efficient steam-boiler furnaces, improved braking systems, electrical regulators and a combined telegraph-and-telephone communication device.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
As a solution of a mechanical and physical puzzle, the arrangement of a large reflector, with a small steam-boiler at the focus of the heat rays thrown by it, is full of interest.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
When is a steam-boiler said to be ruptured?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
So you see it would be about as difficult to live on Jupiter as in a steam-boiler, or a caldron of molten lead.
From Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Something like a hundred thousand tinkers are at work every day; and from an egg saucepan to a steam-boiler there is something to be hammered at by every capacity!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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