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• charcoal burner
  charcoal burner

  noun

  a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
• charcoal-burner
  charcoal-burner

  noun

  (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning wood

charcoal burner

American  

noun

1. a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.

2. a person employed in the manufacture of charcoal.

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charcoal-burner British  

noun

1. (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning wood

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Etymology

Origin of charcoal burner

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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This is to say that you can make great brisket in a common backyard charcoal burner.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2019

Harry lit a charcoal burner and took it to the bedroom.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2017

Festivalgoers can finish off their meals with a soothing Habesha coffee ceremony, in which beans are hand-washed and roasted over a charcoal burner before being served in traditional clay cups.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016

The traditional charcoal burner is thus a poster boy for the human cost of industrialism.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2015

A little old man with a baby carriage made into a pushcart with a charcoal burner, and the smell of roasting chestnuts, and snow on the ground.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

So the charcoal-burner had to go into the parlour to the queen.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

As usual, Sebastien’s approach was announced by the ring of hoofs, but, imagining it to be some charcoal-burner, Billy, who was already at his bricks, did not look up till warned by Caliban’s stealthy hiss.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

You, Mr. Moses, and everyone that is left in the castle, except Talabor and Gábor, will go to-day as soon as it is dusk, to old Gödri, the charcoal-burner.

From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s

Means, indeed!' said the charcoal-burner, 'for you must know I have been ordained priest.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

A charcoal-burner who happened to be passing came up and asked him what he was doing there.

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de