Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A group of gas-burners arranged in an open fireplace or in an inclosed stove, for warming a room by the direct or reflected heat of gas-jets.
  • noun A small portable gas-stove for heating tools, melting solders, etc.

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Examples

  • If the tee on the top of the boiler into which the gas-heater connection is made is not the first fitting and placed as close to the outlet as possible, the water will not circulate freely into the boiler.

    Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble

  • Nigel found the studio very cold though they had put a match to the gas-heater.

    Death in Ecstasy Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1936

  • He blamed this upon their heater; he knew little about hygiene, but he had studied physics, and he knew that a gas-heater devitalized the air.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • But he was politely interested in her work for Troy Wilkins, carefully exact in saying, "Good-morning, miss," and he became as familiar to her as the gas-heater in her cubicle.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Germany, begins the manufacture of a closed globular roaster with a gas-heater attachment.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • In the eighties this concern began the manufacture of a closed ball, or globular, roaster with gas-heater attachment.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Into this constricted space were huddled two imposing roll-top desks, P. Sybarite's high counter, and the small flat desk of the shipping clerk, with an iron safe, a Remington typewriter, a copy-press, sundry chairs and spittoons, a small gas-heater, and many tottering columns of dusty letter-files.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • "That's a gas-heater -- Mr. Davenport made me a present of it.

    The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

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