checkerwork

American  

[chek-er-wurk] / ˈtʃɛk ərˌwɜrk /

noun

1. a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.

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Etymology

Origin of checkerwork

checker ¹ + work

Example Sentences

I learned on coming up that he was trying to tell me not to approach the combustion chamber adjoining the checkerwork.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

The walls are nearly all glass in iron frames, and the panes of white glass alternate in checkerwork with those having blue tracery upon them.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

That's what the checkerwork and fins are for—so that it can absorb the maximum amount of heat from the current of hot, moist air I spoke about.

From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

The stove, as I said, looked like a very tall boiler: half was a long brick-lined flue, where the gas burned; half, a mass of brick checkerwork for retaining the heat.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

Masses of flue-dust had clogged the holes in the checkerwork and reduced its power for holding heat.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford