brazier

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Lewes Norman It appears from this deed that Bunyan continued in business as a brazier, and it is very probable that he carried it on until his decease.

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  1. noun One who makes brass articles.
  2. noun A metal pan for holding burning coals or charcoal.
  3. noun A cooking device consisting of a charcoal or electric heating source over which food is grilled.

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  • In the center of the floor was something like a shallow iron brazier, about three feet high and nearly five feet across, full of glowing coals. —  1
  • On the other side of the brazier was a couch, and lying on the couch was a man. —  1
  • Some of the pots near the brazier were oddly shaped. —  VoiceoftheGods
  • There was a little spouted tin pot resting on a small brazier, and next to it, some chunks of wax and an untidy heap of flattened fragments to be remelted. —  AHMM,September2008
  • It placed the wire tines onto the brazier, and stared at them as they began to heat up That's inhuman Yes The tips of the cat's tails were glowing a dead orange. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
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  1. Middle English brasier, from bras, brass; see brass.
  2. French brasier, from braise, hot coals; see braise.

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  1. Also brasier; from Middle English brasiere, brasyere, a worker in brass, from bras, brass, + -i-ere, -y-ere, as in collier, etc. Cf. braze.
  2. Also brasier; from F. brasier, a pan of live coals, formerly bracier, “a burning coal, quickfire of coals, hot embers” (Cotgrave) (cf. braisière, a camp-kettle), from braise, live coals: see braize.
  3. Another form of braize, D. brasem, etc., bream: see bream.
 

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