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fire-box
[box n.2]
†1. A box with materials for procuring fire, a tinder-box. Obs.
1555Eden Decades 291 Euery man caryeth with hym..a fyre boxe. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) Post. Groans No. 43 Comforts of a fire-box. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlvii, He carried in his pocket, too, a fire⁓box.
†2. A kind of firework. Obs.
1634J. Bate Myst. Nat. & Art ii. 75 How to make fire Boxes..In these boxes you may put golden rayne, starres, serpents petrars [etc.].
3. The chamber of a steam-boiler in which the fuel is burnt.
1830Stephenson & Locke Locomotive & Fixed Engines 65 Those [wheels] on which the ‘fire-box’ rests. 1887J. A. Ewing in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 516/1 The boiler..is fitted with a cast-iron internal fire-box. |