blower

noun10

1. •
   A person who blows.
2. •
   Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
3. •
   A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
4. •
   (UK, slang) Telephone.

   • Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
5. •
   (UK, slang) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
6. •
   The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. •
   A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
8. •
   A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.

   • The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years — 1843
9. •
   (old-fashioned) A braggart, or loud talker.
10. •
    (US, slang) A gun.