boilermaker
/boi-ler-mey-ker/US // ˈbɔɪ lərˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈbɔɪləˌmeɪkə) //
锅炉工,锅炉师,锅炉工人,煮沸师
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person employed to make and repair boilers or other heavy metal items.
- : whiskey with beer as a chaser.
Examples
He was a construction worker, a boilermaker, with 20 years of experience building new power plants and doing repairs.
The bartender had a consolation boilermaker waiting; he gulped half of it before he realized it had been needled with ether.
Near the captain sat his chum, John Barbot, the boilermaker of the isle of Rhe.
This engine of war, an invention of Master Barbot the boilermaker, received the name of the censer.
That same year we lost our old friend Master Barbot, the boilermaker of the isle of Rhe.
In Cunliffe Street, we passed the cottage of a boilermaker, whom I had heard of before.
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