Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contrivance for throwing a stream of oxygen into the flame of a lamp. Also oxygenator.

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

  • noun obsolete An oxidizer.
  • noun A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.

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

  • noun obsolete An oxidizer.
  • noun obsolete A device for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp.

Etymologies

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oxidate +‎ -or

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