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foot warmer

American  

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of foot warmer

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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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

There is iced champagne, and the foot warmer and the marrons glacés and the lamp and everything you like—and quails stuffed with truffles, besides.

From The Children of the King by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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.

He placed a little pan over a foot warmer full of hot coals.

From Adventures of Pinocchio by Della Chiesa, Carol

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)