oil burner
noun
a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
Origin of oil burner
1First recorded in 1895–1900
Words Nearby oil burner
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How to use oil burner in a sentence
Den he took me oop to show me der lamp, an oil burner midt a two minute flash.
The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner | Wilbur LawtonIt was not an oil-burner, nor was it anywhere near as large a locomotive as the one that pulled the train.
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp | Alice B. EmersonIt was now autumn, and to take the chill off the room an oil burner was brightly ablaze.
Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs | Anne WarnerThey may to a certain extent be looked upon as the forerunners of perhaps the most successful form of incandescent oil-burner.
When I would come home at night my wife would greet me with, “You have been flying that oil burner again.”
The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 | Robert B. Meyer
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