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- noun Plural form of
furnace .
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Examples
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A growing number of homeowners are looking to the hearth as a supplemental heat source to their houses 'main furnaces or boilers, sometimes using them to heat individual rooms instead of the entire home.
Drafty Fireplaces Meet Their Match Gwendolyn Bounds 2010
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I just saved two octapuss furnaces from a friend who were going to have them scrapped.
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He showed that in German furnaces nearly half the heat yielded by the fuel was being allowed to escape with the waste gases, and when he came to England, and in conjunction with Lyon Playfair investigated the conditions obtaining in English furnaces, he found the waste to amount to over 80\%.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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At normal times a capitalist economy can never consume all that it produces, so that there is always a wasted surplus (wheat burned in furnaces, herrings dumped back into the sea etc etc) and always unemployment.
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The other big advantage that boilers have over furnaces is that they’re silent.
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The other big advantage that boilers have over furnaces is that they’re silent.
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"The longer I remain in my present position, the more fully I am convinced of the danger constantly threatening us," he said to Anice, "I am convinced that the present system of furnaces is the cause of more explosions than are generally attributed to it.
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Dutton failed to tell the court these measures were not as strict as those in force in 1987 when the furnaces were a national key point.
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The quality of iron made in his furnaces is the same as made by ordinary kind.
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Beneath the furnaces was a space as large as the whole area of the try-works, about a foot deep, which, when the fires were lighted, was filled with water to prevent the deck from burning.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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