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ˈoil burner
1. A device in which oil is atomized and burned to produce heat.
1900Engineer 22 June 651/3 A new muffle furnace with two oil burners of the luminous lamp type, but arranged to give a blue flame. 1946K. Steiner Fuels & Fuel Burners xiv. 279 Domestic oil burners usually operate intermittently.., starting when heat is required and stopping when the heat demand is satisfied. 1946E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1947) ii. xv. 204 The oil burner, starting up in answer to the call of its thermostat. 1970D. Kut Warm Air Heating xx. 338 The grade of oil fuel best suited for a particular installation depends on the type of oil burner and on the hourly through-put of oil.
2. a. A vehicle or ship burning oil as fuel.
1902Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 5/2 Tank engines were the first to be fitted as oil-burners, and now some of the newest main line locomotives are to be fitted. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Apr. 14/3 The steamer will be practically a duplicate of the Princess Adelaide but will be constructed as an oil-burner. 1923R. D. Paine Comrades of Rolling Ocean ix. 160 That ship of his..is an oil-burner. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §766/6 Oil burner, a diesel-powered truck. 1971M. Tak Truck Talk 111 Oil burner, (1) a diesel truck, as opposed to a truck that runs on gasoline.
b. slang. A vehicle which, because of its poor condition, uses up great quantities of lubricating oil.
1938Amer. Speech XIII. 307/2 Oil burner, a bus which uses excessive amounts of oil. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch xvii. 166 Even in an old oil-burner he could have gone three times as far in a day's drive if he'd wanted to. |