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base-burner U.S.
(See base n.1 20 and quots.)
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 242/1. 1877 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 4) 32 Base-burner, a sheet-iron stove for burning anthracite coal, which is only fed at the top, while the fire is confined to the base, or lower part of the stove. 1893‘O. Thanet’ Stories Western Town 34 We got to keep a fire in the base-burner good, all night, or the plants will freeze. 1908S. E. White Riverman xxi. 188 When the very cold weather came and they had to light the base-burner stove. Ibid. 189 He shook down the base-burner vigorously. 1922Titus ‘Timber’ ii. 28 A gaunt man..was putting wood in the base burner.
So base-burning a., applied to a furnace or stove.
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