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baseburner

or base burn·er, base-burn·er

[beys-bur-ner]
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noun
  1. a stove or furnace with a self-acting fuel hopper over the fire chamber.
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Origin of baseburner

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; base1 + burner
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British Dictionary definitions for baseburner

baseburner

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