gas washer

English

Noun

gas washer (plural gas washers)

1. A gasworks apparatus within which gas from the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gas washer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)