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Press′ure-blow′er.

One in which the air is driven by a positive pressure by pistons rotary or otherwise, in contradistinction to one in which the air is projected by fans working to produce a centrifugal action of the air by the speed of movement of radial vanes. See blower. See also Fig. 2589.

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