Fan — telephone (slang)

Usage examples of blower.

The larger stores either had or contracted for plows, blowers and melters, which were simply road fusers set on low heat.

Other bare combs of Ivory, and declared by their gesture and motions of their armes, that they were ordained and readie to dresse the goddesse : Others dropped in the wayes as they went Balme and other pretious ointments : Then came a great number, as well of men as women, with Candels, torches, and other lights, doing honour to the celestiall goddesse : After that sounded the musical harmony of instruments : then came a faire companie of youth, apparelled in white vestiments, singing both meter and verse, with a comely grade which some studious Poet had made in honour of the Muses : In the meane season, arrived the blowers of trumpets, which were dedicated unto Serapes, and to the temple before them were officers and beadles, preparing roome for the goddess to passe.

Sergeant Horthy looked around the six blowers and twenty-three men that made up Firebase Bolo.

The larger stores either had or contracted for plows, blowers and melters, which were simply road fusers set on low heat.

She peered curiously at the storerooms and shedlike workshops, catching glimpses of basket makers and glass blowers still at work, of hundreds of stacked wine jars, mountains of baled linen, the neat rows of a kitchen garden.

In the middle of Silesia, a region which is not as familiar to me as Koshnavia south of Konitz, the tank went into position and backed up, for purposes of camouflage, into a wooden shed which some Silesian glass blowers had filled with their products.

Medics dowsed the two with fresh water, plucked away the leeches, cut away their garments, all the while injecting them with painkillers and drying them off with crumpled veils of gauze and a hot air blower.

It seemed to me that I had spent my whole life being other people, safe blowers, fraudsmen, a few rather gentle murderers.

The catchsack normally attached to the blower in the rear was missing.

He had a blower system then that worked off the heat generated by the woodstove, and the system had been fine, assuming the woodstove stayed lit.

Twice he had to turn up the air blower in his helmet to clear the sweaty fog from his faceplate.

There was the whine of the blowers as she dried off, and then she ran through the hot room on her way back into the solarium.

Criminals often use brooms or even leaf blowers to destroy or confuse the evidence at crime scenes.

The members who composed it were, seven-eighths of them, office-holders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contractors, kept-editors, spaniels well-train’d to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, mail-riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, blowers, electioneerers, bawlers, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, ruined sports, expell’d gamblers, policy-backers, monte-dealers, duelists, carriers of conceal’d weapons, deaf’ men, pimpled men, scarr’d inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people’s money and harlot’s money twisted together.

A battery-powered blower, worn at the waist, drives filtered air into the helmet, keeping it under positive pressure, so that infective bioparticles in the air will not sneak in.