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charcoal burner

noun

  1. a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  2. a person employed in the manufacture of charcoal.


charcoal-burner

noun

  1. (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning wood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of charcoal burner1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

In the play, first performed in 425BC, a resourceful charcoal-burner named Dikaiopolis manages to bypass corrupt Athenian politicians and a pompous general to make peace with the Spartans.

Even the wanderer’s seeking refuge in a humble charcoal-burner’s hut was fraught with meaning: it was a hint at the carbonari, an Italian secret society which Austria’s Habsburg rulers suspected of subversion.

In this poem, the wanderer says he has found shelter in a charcoal-burner’s hut; in repose, he begins to feel the grief gnawing within him.

In a few moments our preparations were complete: I had donned the old charcoal-burner's outer rags, Fanchette had assumed those of the woman, while M. d'Agen, who was for a time at a loss, and betrayed less taste for this part of the plan than for any other, ended by putting on the jerkin and hose of the man who had served us as guide.

It had suffered comparatively little from the axe of the charcoal-burner, and many birds, not elsewhere seen,- 18 - were met with here.

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