head-bolt heater

A form of headbolt heater — A form of block heater that consists of a hollow headbolt which contains an electric heating element.

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Meanings

nounhead-bolt heater (plural head-bolt heaters)

plural head-bolt heaters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of headbolt heater.

    Head-bolt heater makes motors start easily in sub-zero weather by warming the water in the block to driving temperature.

    1948 January, “Here's News”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 89, number 1, page 98
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    Nevertheless, she professed genuine interest in the fact that his Oldsmobile always started now that he had put in a tank heater, which was so much more efficient than that old head-bolt heater system.

    2011, Gerald Anderson, Murder Under the Loon, →ISBN, page 61

    He, like everyone else here, had a head-bolt heater plugged into the engine to keep it warm and some heat tape wrapped around the battery.

    2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song, →ISBN
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