[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That vomits or causes to vomit.
Vomiting-boiler: (see quot. 1844).
1844. G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., ii. 76. A ‘vomiting-boiler,’ that is, a boiler so constructed that the water is made to vomit upwards from a pipe, and then to fall down on the cloth in the boiler.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., III. 14/2. Fixed kiers with a vomiting-pipe.
1880. J. Dunbar, Pract. Papermaker (1881), 19. [Esparto grass] boiled for 10 hours in stationary vomiting boilers with 10 lb. steam pressure.
1904. R. J. Farrer, Gard. Asia, 248. From the wide plain leapt a vomiting cone of fire.
