eccaleobionn.
The name given to an egg-hatching apparatus invented by W. Bucknell about 1839.
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furnacec1400
brood-oven1737
eccaleobion1839
hatcher1856
incubator1857
brooder1880
brood-chamber1888
1839 Bucknell (title) Eccaleobion: a Treatise on Artificial Incubation.
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Eccaleobion, a contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 787 Willis's Home Journal was at one time a very eccaleöbion for young writers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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