OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20762

washout

/ˈwɒʃaʊt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
derrama
An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
In recent months, as we have already reported, boiler washouts of Stratford's "Britannia" Pacifics have been carried out at Norwich, owing to the better staff situation at the latt…
No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, wh…
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