glass tank

American  

noun

1. a reverberatory furnace in which glass is melted directly under the flames.

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Example Sentences

But walking on a treadmill, in a glass tank filled with water at chest level was new to him — and admittedly a little scary at first.

From Los Angeles Times

"It’s a slow process - you have to go through those stages before having it in a glass tank, like the Mary Rose of Sanday."

From BBC

“They’re not very aggressive and they’re kind of picky eaters,” said Branham, a technician, as she exhaled into a glass tank to attract the insects to the carbon dioxide in her breath.

From Seattle Times

Around the turn of the next century, an Australian actress named Annette Kellerman toured the U.S., donning a one-piece bathing suit instead of traditional pantaloons and performing inside a glass tank.

From Los Angeles Times

Boxes, indeed, have become something of a Devlin signature: A spinning cube stood in for a Manhattan gallery and a Beijing police interrogation room in her design for Lucy Kirkwood’s 2013 play “Chimerica,” and the action of Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy,” which came to Broadway earlier this year, took place inside an airless, rotating glass tank.

From New York Times