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burner|ˈbɜːnə(r)|
Also 4–6 brenner, -ar, 6 borner.
[f. burn v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who burns, or consumes with fire.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 329 Alle brenneris of houses and cornes ben cursed opynly in parische chirches. 1502Arnolde Chron. 176 Brenners of houses & chirches. 1563Homilies ii. Wilful Rebell. i. (1859) 558 The burners of their villages. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. vi. (1852) 569 Weymouth also suffered from these burners no little damage. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 14 The burner of books and the tormentor of those who wrote them.
b. fig.
1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lix. 12 Persecutors in talk, burners and stabbers with the tongue.
c. A swindler. U.S. ? Obs. (Cf. burn v.1 14 f.)
1838Lexington Observer & Reporter 3 Nov., He pulls out his pocket book, it is seized by the burner who makes off with it. 1842Philad. Spirit of Times 15 Jan. (Th.), The burners make better plots than most of our dramatists. 1844[see burn v.1 14 f]. 1845Congress. Globe 6 Jan. App. 118/1 The Empire Club [of New York]..consisted of gamblers, pickpockets, droppers, burners, thimble-riggers and the like.
2. One who prepares or produces by burning. Chiefly in comb., as brick-burner, charcoal-burner, lime-burner.
1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1790) 154 To pay to a lyme brenner ffor lyme vis. viiid. c1500Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 10 Parys plasterers, daubers, and lyme borners. 1562Act 5 Eliz. iv. §30 The Art or Occupation of a..Lime burner, Brickmaker..Burner of Oare and Wood-Ashes. 1703Art's Improv. p. xiv, The Trades of Brick-burners, etc. 1825Bro. Jonathan II. 71, I mistook them at first for charcoal-burners. 1874Linc. Chron. 4 Dec. in Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) To brickyard hands: wanted two steady men as burners.
3. A vessel to hold something that is burning.
1856T. Hook G. Gurney I. vi. (L) To put three or four of the pastilles into a burner on the chimney-piece.
4. a. That part of an illuminating apparatus from which the flame comes; in a lamp the wick-holder; in a gas-light the part containing the hole or holes through which the gas passes before combustion. Often with defining words, as Argand burner, batwing burner, Bunsen burner, cockspur burner, fish-tail burner.
1790Roy in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 162 A simple Argand's burner. 1808Murdoch in Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 125 The burners..are connected with the mains, by short tubes. 1828Miss Mitford Village (1863) 113 The luminary..had four burners, which never..were all in action together. 1886Harper's Mag. LXXII. 463/2 From the centre of the dome a large chandelier was suspended, furnished with four electric burners.
b. Welsbach incandescent gas burner, a burner devised by Auer von Welsbach for producing an incandescent light by means of a mantle (see mantle n. 5 g) and Bunsen burner. Also called the Auer burner, incandescent burner, or Welsbach burner.
1894[see incandescent a. 1 d]. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 260/2 Incandescent Burners. The invention of the Welsbach mantle places at the disposal of lighthouse authorities the means of producing a light of high intensity.
c. In a gas cooker, the part containing the hole or holes through which the gas passes before combustion. See also cook v.1 1 b.
1885Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List Jan. 368 Gas stove.., lever taps to hot-plate, and extra simmering burner in centre of ring burner, with brass handle tap. 1963Good Housek. Setting Up Home viii. 113 A cooker with four burners and a grill is the usual choice for family cooking. Ibid., Oven burners may be arranged at the sides or back. |