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water back

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water back
n
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) the US name for back boiler
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Noun1.water back - water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove
cookstove - a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
fireplace, hearth, open fireplace - an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
hot-water heater, hot-water tank, water heater - a heater and storage tank to supply heated water


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"They were beside the second water back there," and he pointed to the south.
An we bring not the water back again, and soon, we are ruined, and the good work of two hundred years must end.
 
 
 
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