boiler

plural boilers

1. A person who boils something.
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.

   1907, W. G. Wallace, Locomotive Breakdown Questions, F.J. Drake & Company, page 87

3. An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
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. A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
6. A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
7. A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
8. AustraliaUKderogatoryslangAn old woman.

1. informalno pluralrareBoilerplate.

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

   2007, Jim Casey, “Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars”, in tx.guns (Usenet)

   3 more examples

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

   1994 May 4, Glenn Nicholas, “Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?”, in comp.databases.oracle (Usenet)

   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.

   2003 December 7, Tom Potter, "Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet

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

   2009 March 30, hughess7, “Re: Mail merge to PDF”, in microsoft.public.access (Usenet)

plural Boilers

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Brompton boiler.

   Our Patent Museum now forms a portion of "The Boilers," but, although in them, it is not of them.

   1866, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 781

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   The quadrangle, unlike the Boilers (which were later moved to house the Bethnal Green Museum), still stands as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

   2007, Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, page 62