donkey boiler

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsauxiliary boiler

   Broaderboiler

   ship

Questions about donkey boiler

What does donkey boiler mean?

donkey 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 donkey boiler?

Close synonyms include auxiliary 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 donkey boiler a common word?

donkey 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.