baseburner

or base burn·er, base-burn·er

[beys-bur-ner]

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noun

a stove or furnace with a self-acting fuel hopper over the fire chamber.

Origin of baseburner

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; base¹ + burner

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Related Words for baseburner

runner, baseburner

British Dictionary definitions for baseburner

baseburner

noun

US a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber

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