Franklin stove love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cast-iron heating stove shaped like a fireplace but employing metal baffles to increase its heating efficiency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Benjamin Franklin.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin.

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