subs. (Winchester College).—1. A plain coffee-pot used for heating water: called fourpenny and sixpenny boilers, not from their price, but from the quantity of milk they will hold: τὸ παν BOILERS were large tin saucepan-like vessels in which water for hot BIDETS (q.v.) was heated.
2. See POT BOILER.
3. (Royal Military Academy).—A boiled potato: fried potatoes are called GREASERS.
THE BOILERS (or BROMPTON-BOILERS), subs. phr. (old).—The Kensington Museum and School of Art: in allusion to the peculiar form of the buildings, and the fact of their being mainly composed of, and covered with, sheet iron; this has been changed since the extensive alterations in the building, or rather pile of buildings, and the term is now applied to the Bethnal Green Museum: see PEPPER-BOXES.
1885. Daily News, July 9, 5, 1. The building is merely a fragment of the old ‘BROMPTON BOILERS,’ set up originally for the South Kensington Museum.
