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单词 chauffer
释义

chauffern.

/ˈtʃɔːfə/
Etymology: variant of chafer n.2 (formerly chaufer ), perhaps with some influence of modern French chauffoir , < chauffer to heat, chafe v. Also found as choffer n.
A metal basket containing fire, formerly used in light-houses; a small portable furnace usually of iron, fitted with air-holes and a grate.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > small portable furnace
choffing-dish1689
choffer1756
chauffer-pan1825
chauffer1833
1833 Blackwood's Mag. 359 Open coal fires, placed in open chauffers, were exhibited to the mariner.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 224 The lights consisted of coal fires in chauffers.
1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 179 In a room upstairs, where a chauffer was burning against damp.

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chauffer-pan n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > small portable furnace
choffing-dish1689
choffer1756
chauffer-pan1825
chauffer1833
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 452 The workman..carries the contents of the mortar to the first chauffer-pan, where it is heated.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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