Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coal stove with a hopper that replenishes itself from above as lower layers of fuel are consumed.
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- noun A type of
stove that automatically re-adds coal, when needed, to the base using ahopper .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The boys established themselves on the couch back of the baseburner.
Lydia of the Pines Honor�� Morrow 1910
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In the sitting room, around the baseburner stove, were three persons -- Captain Cy, Bos'n, and Phoebe.
Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Austen and Sir Roger de Coverley and the knitting of pale-blue tea cosies are all of life -- who like mild twilight with the children singing hymns at the piano and the husband coming home to find his slippers set up against the baseburner.
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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Everything about her house is modern " hand-painted china, souvenirs from the Columbian Exposition, beaded portieres, shining baseburner stoves, gas lights, a telephone on the wall.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966
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