Definition of "gas-holder" [gas-holder]

• A vessel for the storage of gas after purification, and for regulating its flow through street-mains, burners, etc. See cut under gasometer. (noun)
• A vessel of metal or glass, used in chemical laboratories for the collection and storage of gases. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I suggested that we should allow this portion to evaporate almost entirely away, and that we should collect the last 10 cubic centimetres by allowing it to boil off into a gas-holder."
• "Gas made at high heat will reach the consumer in any weather very nearly as rich as when it leaves the gas-holder; for, thus made, the hydrogen and carbon are chemically combined, instead of the hydrogen merely bearing a quantity of carbon-vapor mechanically mixed and liable to deposit with every reduction of temperature."
• "The air in the whole apparatus is first displaced by a stream of carbon dioxide issuing from a carbon dioxide generator, or gas-holder, and passing through scrubbers, and this stream of gas is maintained throughout the whole of the experiment, the gas being absorbed at the end of the system by strong solution of caustic potash."