gas firen.
/ˈɡas ˌfʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈɡæs ˌfaɪ(ə)r/ A fixed (domestic) heating appliance in which gas is burned to provide heat directly. Also more widely: any fire fuelled by gas. Cf. coal fire n. 1.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > fuelled by gas
gas fire1818
gas heater1849
1818 J. L. Sullivan Explan. Grants for Steam Boats on Connecticut River 21 His [sc. Morey's] invention of the *Gas Fire, or as he calls it in his specification, the American Water Burner.
1852 Times 26 Apr. 1/4 (advt.) Bachhoffner and Defriev's new Patent Polytechnic Gas Fire will be exhibited and lectured on.
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 57 In this gas-fire diamonds may be burned.
1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. 257 A sentence which..ought to be blazoned, in letters of stinking gasfire, over the condemned cells of every felon's prison in Europe.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 160/1 Gas fires, as a substitute for the open coal fire, have many points in their favour.
1949 R. C. Hutchinson Elephant & Castle iii. xxviii. 328 With the extra pressure the gas-fire poppled noisily.
2004 Pop. Mech. June 114/2 You have a nice, clean gas fire that heats the living areas without combustion byproducts entering the living space.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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