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boiler

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɔɪlə//
  • United States//ˈbɔɪlɚ//

A person who boils something.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who boils something.

  2. 2

    A steam boiler.

    If such was the case and a hole drilled through the brace in the boiler, it might become stopped up opposite the gauge cock and the steam would leak down between the boiler head and the brace on the inside, which would perhaps cause a flutter of steam and water to show at the gauge cock when open.

  3. 3

    An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.

  4. 4

    A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.

  5. 5

    A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.

  6. 6

    A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.

  7. 7

    A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.

  8. 8

    slangAn old woman.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English boiler From boil + -er.

noun

  1. 1

    informalBoilerplate.

    While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table.

    Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.

    Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).

    Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!

Etymology

Clipping of boilerplate.

Forms

plural
boilers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).