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oil burner

noun

First recorded in 1895–1900

Den he took me oop to show me der lamp, an oil burner midt a two minute flash.

It was not an oil-burner, nor was it anywhere near as large a locomotive as the one that pulled the train.

It was now autumn, and to take the chill off the room an oil burner was brightly ablaze.

They may to a certain extent be looked upon as the forerunners of perhaps the most successful form of incandescent oil-burner.

When I would come home at night my wife would greet me with, “You have been flying that oil burner again.”

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