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A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

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  1. n. A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
  2. n. Alt. of Trompe
  3. A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.] A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part ofa vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, iscarried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it isled to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]
  5. v:100 n. A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. n. Alt. of Trompe