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A popcorn popper that uses only hot air to prepare the food.
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(obsolete) A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
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(metallurgy) A furnace in which slags of litharge left in refining silver are reduced to lead by being heated with charcoal.
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(historical) A furnace or stove designed and used to maintain uniform heat, primarily used by alchemists.
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(New Zealand, military, slang) A thermette.
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(metallurgy) forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
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(sciences) A small laboratory gas burner whose air supply may be controlled with an adjustable hole.
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An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
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The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.
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A thermosyphon reboiler.
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In modern spas, a room with a hot floor.
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A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
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A heater or brazier in which charcoal is burnt.
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(chemistry) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
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The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
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A blanket with an integrated electrical heating device.
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A fire, stove or heater powered by electricity.
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A glowing piece of coal or wood; a hot coal.
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(transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
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A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
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Obsolete spelling of furnace [(UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.]
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The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
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A metal-lined fireplace with a hollow baffle and a flue acting as an inverted siphon, intended to produce more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open fireplace.
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A person employed to operate a furnace.
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A tapered thermic syphon water-tube inserted in the furnace of a Lancashire boiler.
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(countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
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(South Africa, India) A domestic water boiler.
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An electric device for drying hair by blowing hot air on it; a blow-dryer.
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A form of block heater that consists of a hollow headbolt which contains an electric heating element.
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The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
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A device used to emit a stream of hot air.
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Alternative form of heat bank. [(UK, Australia) A storage heater.]
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A stove with a hot element.
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(engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
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(historical) The main section of a traditional house, incorporating a fireplace.
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A device for supplying domestic hot water in which a thermostatically-controlled heating element is immersed within a tank of water
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A furnace that burns refuse.
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A German type of ceramic tile stove or cocklestove which captures heat from periodic burning of fuel such as wood and radiates it over a long period to heat a living space.
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An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
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(historical) A form of stove set into a fireplace, heating the room by radiation and the rooms above by hot air.
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The zone of hot gases around a flame.
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(chemistry) A laboratory burner that produces multiple open gas flames, used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
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(historical) A furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and the products of combustion, including gases and flying ash.
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A stove for heating or cooking, powered by paraffin/kerosene.
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An open hearth furnace (open-hearth furnace).
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Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
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A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, used in making steel.
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(UK) A proprietary brand of smokeless fuel in the form of coal briquettes.
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(archeology) A stone used to transfer heat from a fire into a vessel of water, so as to heat the contents.
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A type of portable stove that uses pressurized kerosene as fuel, used by campers and the like.
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Hot water for use in industrial processes.
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(archaic) A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
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An attachment to a furnace in which the fumes of any metal are condensed.
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A revolving reverberatory furnace.
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A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
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A furnace in which the flame does not come into contact with the material being heated but products of the combustion gases do
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A furnace in the form of a vertical cylinder in which hot gas is forced upwards through the contained solids
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A chamber in which smoke passes from a boiler before being vented through a chimney.
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A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
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A serving table or counter with heaters, traditionally using steam, to keep food warm.
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(cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
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A serving table that keeps food warm with heated water underneath trays set into its surface.
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(prison slang) An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.
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Of the firebox or furnace of a steam boiler, fed with coal by a mechanical stoker.
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Obsolete spelling of stove [A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.]
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(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
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(historical) A boiler in which the water was heated.
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Alternative spelling of tuyere [A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge]
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Alternative spelling of water boiler [An electric device which heats water up to boiling temperature.]
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A panel on the side of a furnace consisting of multiple tubes that carry water.
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Alternative form of wood burner [(UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.]
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