"soot blower" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:",
          "text": "In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of loosening and blowing off the soot deposits.",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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        [
          "boiler tube",
          "boiler tube"
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          "steam boiler",
          "steam boiler"
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  "word": "soot blower"
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          "ref": "1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:",
          "text": "In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of loosening and blowing off the soot deposits.",
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        "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."
      ],
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          "boiler tube",
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          "steam boiler",
          "steam boiler"
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  "word": "soot blower"
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