reboiler

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verb

To equip with a new boiler.

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Meanings

verbreboiler (third-person singular simple present reboilers, present participle reboilering, simple past and past participle reboilered)

present singular third person reboilers · participle present reboilering · participle past reboilered · past reboilered

  1. transitiveTo equip with a new boiler.

    She lasted until 1949 and was never reboilered to class J3.

    2012, Richard Hardy, A Life on the Lines: A Railwayman's Album, →ISBN
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    Whereas nearly all of about 20 pre-1860 locomotives existing in this country have been reframed, reboilered, or in other respects lost their identity through reconstruction […]

    1979, John H. White, A History of the American Locomotive, →ISBN, page 311

    Her engines gave constant trouble and she was reboilered with higher-pressure units in 1878.

    2013, Ambrose Greenway, Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries: An Illustrated History, →ISBN, page 29

Origin

From re- + boiler.

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Cite this entry
APA

reboiler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reboiler

MLA

“reboiler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reboiler. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reboiler,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reboiler.

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