Reboiler

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To equip with a new boiler. transitive

    "Whereas nearly all of about 20 pre-1860 locomotives existing in this country have been reframed, reboilered, or in other respects lost their identity through reconstruction […]"

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"Whereas nearly all of about 20 pre-1860 locomotives existing in this country have been reframed, reboilered, or in other respects lost their identity through reconstruction […]"

Etymology

From re- + boiler.

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