Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus used in India for cooling the air. It consists of a revolving wheel fitted to a window, and usually inclosed in wet tatties, through which the air is forced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties.
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- noun An
antidote toheat , especially a rotatingfan attached to awindow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only through the broken thermantidote in King's compartment no wet air came.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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King settled down on his side of the compartment, after a struggle with the thermantidote that refused to work.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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The houses being unusually strong and well-built, might by some art of thermantidote be rendered cool enough in the hottest weather: they are now ovens. 3 It was my habit to retire immediately after the late breakfast to the little room upstairs, to sprinkle it with water, and to lie down on a mat.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Only through the broken thermantidote in King's compartment no wet air came.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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King settled down on his side of the compartment, after a struggle with the thermantidote that refused to work.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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I felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889
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We walk upon cool matting; we recline upon long-armed chairs; low and heavy punkahs swing overhead; a sweet breathing of wet _khaskhas_ grass comes sobbing out of the thermantidote; and a gigantic but gentle _khidmatgar_ is always at our elbow with long glasses on a silver tray.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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a gossip with the _saices; _ [Q] but while _Sunny Baba_ is at large, and might at any moment make a raid on Mamma, who is dozing over a novel on a spider-chair near the mouth of the thermantidote, the Ayah and
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
qms commented on the word thermantidote
Air conditioning’s a sensible plan -
Does more than a swamp cooler can.
A thermantidote
Might garner my vote
If I can’t have a lackey with fan.
February 26, 2019
woiqhyyi commented on the word thermantidote
What an interesting word
February 26, 2019
bilby commented on the word thermantidote
Dang, I'm all out of wet tatties.
February 26, 2019
sionnach commented on the word thermantidote
Alexa, adjust the thermantidote..
Never, under any circumstances, get a Nest thermostat in your home. It is the technology of Satan and you may wake up dead of hypothermia in the night.
March 17, 2019