Boiled-dinner
a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
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a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
- Boiled-oil
any oil, as linseed oil, heated together with driers to improve its drying properties.
- Boiled-shirt
a formal or semiformal dress shirt with a starched front. noun (informal) a dress shirt with a stiff front A dress shirt, esp with a starched front; Fried Shirt Stiff, chilly, and pompous behavior; stuffiness: not arrayed in the ”boiled shirt” of formality (1850s+ Western)
- Boiled-sweet
hard candy. noun (Brit) a hard sticky sweet of boiled sugar with any of various flavourings
- Boiler-horsepower
a unit of measurement of the ability of a boiler to evaporate water, usually given as the ability to evaporate 34½ pounds (15.6 kg) of water an hour, into dry saturated steam from and at 212°F (100°C).