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

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)

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

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.

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 Savigny, Annie Gregg