foot warmer

American  

noun

1. any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.

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Etymology

Origin of foot warmer

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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foot warmer

Once he listened to a group of his managers present a convincing argument, buttressed with statistics, that first-year production of a new foot warmer should be 50,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the greater protection and comfort of invalids, an old-fashioned foot warmer, with a handle like a basket, was always at hand ready to be filled with live coals and carried out.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various

It was a full-grown brick covered with felt, a foot warmer.

From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle

This foot warmer is so constructed that two bricks may be heated and placed inside of the stool.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

If a copper lid were used as a foot warmer, it would give the feet only.095 as much heat as an equal weight of water; a lead weight only.031 as much heat as water.

From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.