steam boiler

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noun

a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.

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Origin of steam boiler

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby steam boiler

steam bath, steam beer, steamboat, Steamboat Gothic, Steamboat Springs, steam boiler, steam chest, steam coal, steamed, steamed up, steam engine

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How to use steam boiler in a sentence

Don’t be tempted to compromise on steam at the wrong temperature just because your espresso is sitting there waiting—the steam boiler is ready on demand while you’re pulling your shot.
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In 2006, the firm presided over a routine steam-injection procedure known as “well stimulation.”
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“Hayden took J.W. into a boiler room in the City of Ferguson jail,” the papers charge.
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She held on to the hair as Hayden led her further back into the boiler room.
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Parenting a kid that can get from place to place under his own steam is a whole new ballgame.
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But as one deadly malady loses steam, another may be exploding: hunger.
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A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
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Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
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Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.
Notes and Queries, Index to Eighth Volume, July-December 1853|Various
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
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British Dictionary definitions for steam boiler

steam-boiler

noun

a 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

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