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Electric fan   /ɪlˈɛktrɪk fæn/   Listen
Electric fan

noun
1.
A fan run by an electric motor.  Synonym: blower.






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"Electric fan" Quotes from Famous Books



... "juice" is not monopolized, an electric fan in drying is economical, especially for those ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... even hotter than the day had been. Only the whirring electric fan kept the air moving. It might have been midsummer instead of the end ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... with "pure buttermilk." He'll be in more difficult situations before he is done, I'm thinking. An electric fan above him that keeps the buttermilk "pure" and flies the American flag ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... admitted to quiet, padded rooms, containing everything which is necessary to separate hopeful persons from their money. In one room a number of book-makers were whiling away the hot afternoon with poker for small stakes. In another room, played upon by an electric fan, sat Mr. Lichtenstein, the proprietor. He was bent over a table on which he had assembled fifteen or twenty of the component parts of a very large picture-puzzle. He was small, plump and earnest. ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris

... Coquenil calmed himself and answered gently: "It's like a big electric fan, it's drawing air out of this room very fast, with a powerful suction, and ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett



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