Blōw'er, n.
n. 1. One who blows; a smelter.
Sense 2. (Mech.) A contrivance for driving a current of air into something, as in furnaces, cotton-spinning, &c.
Sense 3. A steam-jet to exhaust partially a chimney and create a blast-draught;—sometimes called a blow-pipe.
Sense 4. A plate of iron or tin used to increase the current of air in a chimney or through a fire, by closing the upper part of the fireplace in front.
Sense 5. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine. Dane.
Sense 6. The whale;—so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.