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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

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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

There they came upon the Stranger and the charcoal-burner eating together, seated side by side; and the lame man also ate with them, sitting on the ground.

From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh

"If it wasn't that I am as hungry as a wolf, I wouldn't say no to the hut of a charcoal-burner to-night."

From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

The comparatively small forest-areas are, in many parts, as previously stated, being rapidly reduced by the hatchet of the charcoal-burner.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

Once on a time there was a charcoal-burner, who had a son, who was a charcoal-burner too.

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

When he got there, all the strangers were bidden to come in, and the charcoal-burner followed with the rest.

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