"headbolt heater" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: headbolt heaters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} headbolt heater (plural headbolt heaters)
  1. A form of block heater that consists of a hollow headbolt which contains an electric heating element. Synonyms: head-bolt heater, head bolt heater
    Sense id: en-headbolt_heater-en-noun-2KCjs70A Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1969, Jeno F. Paulucci, Les Rich, How it was to make $100,000,000 in a hurry",
          "text": "Second we were told that the company in all fairness, with winter almost on us, should provide headbolt heaters for employees' cars in the parking lot. A headbolt heater, in case you don't know about life in the frigid zone, is a gadget that you plug into a parked car. So if it's forty below that day, your car will still be reasonably warm when you're ready to go home. It might even start.",
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