auxiliary boiler

1. 1.

   (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port)

   Synonymsdonkey boiler

   Broaderboiler

   ship

Questions about auxiliary boiler

What does auxiliary boiler mean?

auxiliary boiler means "(nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port)".

What is another word for auxiliary boiler?

Close synonyms include donkey boiler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auxiliary boiler a common word?

auxiliary boiler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.