单词 | base-burning |
释义 | base-burningadj. North American. Now chiefly historical. Designating a kind of stove in which fuel is burned in a chamber at the base, the fuel being replenished from above by means of a hopper. Cf. base-burner n., magazine stove n. at magazine n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1860 U.S. Patent 30,333 2/2 In adopting my improvement, any stove of the well known forms may be used, but it is more particularly adapted to those known as base burning. 1892 W. D. Howells Let. 10 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1981) IV. 9 He was prompt to put a good base-burning stove into your sitting room. 1918 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 185 459 Most of the homes in the country and in the smaller towns are equipped with base-burning stoves. 1974 L. Gay Compl. Bk. Heating with Wood (1980) 81 Dr. Nott's..base-burning magazine stove was a forerunner of the modern Riteway pictured next. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1860 |
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