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reboiler en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + boiler.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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