boiler n DARE ~ n¹ (1903-) for sense 1.
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   [1987] QUINLAN 7 Cooking gear consisted of boilers, bake pots, tea pots, frying pans and sauce pans. 1987 POOLE 61 We were working late that evening and didn't have time to get any wood for our little camp stove, so we got a boiler from one of our neighbours and put on our scoff of pork and cabbage.
   3 Person who tends a pot.
   1983 MARTIN 55 [At the Bell Island mine] young boys worked the year around as ore cobbers or as 'boilers,' boilers being responsible for keeping tea pots full for thirsty miners.

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