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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a stretch of seething water, as in a rapids or below a waterfall.
See: boil-up(def. 1)
Quotations
1829
When a raft of oak arrives at a water-fall, it has to be dragged past it by oxen or horses on the land; for if allowed to run over as other timber is, when it broke up in the cataract and boilers, it would sink.
1889
Right ahead are seen the white seething "boilers" of the rapids.