reboiler

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ boiler.

Verb

reboiler (third-person singular simple present reboilers, present participle reboilering, simple past and past participle reboilered)

  1. (transitive) To equip with a new boiler.
    • 1979, John H. White, A History of the American Locomotive‎[1], →ISBN, page 311:
      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 […]
    • 2012, Richard Hardy, A Life on the Lines: A Railwayman's Album‎[2], →ISBN:
      She lasted until 1949 and was never reboilered to class J3.
    • 2013, Ambrose Greenway, Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries: An Illustrated History‎[3], →ISBN, page 29:
      Her engines gave constant trouble and she was reboilered with higher-pressure units in 1878.
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