"soot blower" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: soot blowers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} soot blower (plural soot blowers)
  1. A device for directing a jet of steam on the boiler tubes of a steam boiler, so as to remove deposits of soot inside the tubes.
    Sense id: en-soot_blower-en-noun-Z-kf1UTg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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