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

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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

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

From Adventures of Pinocchio by Carol Della Chiesa

Heaven help him among such a horde of cruel hearts; I must at any risk go down and get a foot warmer.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny

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 Richard Aumerle Maher

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