a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
a person employed in the manufacture of charcoal.
First recorded in 1815–25
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When he visited her in England two years later, she showed him her Balmoral estate, personally taking the wheel of her station wagon and cooking scones over a charcoal burner at a lakeside picnic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
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
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
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
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
Now there were three of the king's servants who waited on the charcoal-burner day by day, in turn, and these three fellows had stolen the ring between them.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
The hunchbacked charcoal-burner told me as he went past this morning.”
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
The lame man and the charcoal-burner rode with Him.
From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard
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