单词 | fire room |
释义 | fire roomn. 1. A room containing a fireplace. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > warm room or room with fire stewc1374 stove?1542 fire room1591 firehouse1632 stove-room1706 zeta1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others hell1310 summer hall1388 summer parloura1425 paradise1485 fire room1591 garden room1619 ease-room1629 portcullis1631 divan1678 but?1700 sluttery1711 rotunda1737 glass casea1777 dungeon1782 hall of mirrors1789 balcony-chamber1800 showroom1820 mirror room1858 vomitorium1923 mosquito room1925 refuge room1937 quiet room1938 Florida room1968 roomset1980 wet room1982 1591 Will R. Wynton in Longman's Mag. (1905) Apr. 533 Dennys my wyfe shall have the inner chamber in my house, a garden..and feete rome & fyer rome, egress and regress. 1632 Inventory 9 Apr. in M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage (1961) App. 278 Itim in the Chamber over the fire roume a trundle bedstedle. 1723 J. Macky Journey through Scotl. viii. 141 In the first Floor are 38 Fire Rooms: The Hall is adorn'd with Family Pictures, and behind the Hall is a handsome Chapel. 1797 Newcastle Chron. 1 July To be Sold..The Mansion-House belonging to John Haigh, Esq..consisting of Fifteen Fire Rooms. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 123 One wing of a new castle..in which there are between fifty and sixty fire-rooms. 2002 E. F. Crane Killed Strangely i. 14 Whatever the name given to the room on the other side of the chimney wall—fire room, great room, keeping room, common room, hall, or kitchen—it contained the hearth where meals were cooked, bread baked, water heated, and clothes dried. 2. a. A room in a building containing a furnace. Also: a furnace or chamber of a furnace. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] oveneOE furnacea1225 chimney1340 fire-stock1440 firework1606 fire room1657 firehole1682 poil1756 smut1819 blast-pot1887 society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > building or room containing furnace melting house1431 fire room1657 society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > compartment or section fire room1657 shaft1855 wrinkle1884 stall1887 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 87 From the grinding place to the boyling house, four foot and a halfe, from thence to the fire-room, seven foot and a halfe. 1668 tr. P. Thibaut Art Chymistry 13 To build this Furnace.., make an ash-hole covered with a grate, and a fire-room covered with its two Iron barres. 1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. ii. xi. 270 You must place the Crucible in the Reverberatory upon a Tile, for fear lest the Wind which comes through the Doors of the Ash hole, and Fire-room, might be apt to cool the bottom. 1776 J. Stewart Plan & Descr. Mr. John Stewart's Fire Engine Mill 32 The grate and fire room of the fire engine boiler being only about half as large as for a great copper fire. 1828 S. F. Gray Operative Chemist 539 (caption) A workman who is putting a faggot to the mouth of the fire room, and holds it there until it is perfectly alight, when he drops it into the fire room, and immediately stops up the fire room door with another faggot. 1896 Ann. Rep. City Cleveland 1895 310 The walls of the fire-room in the South yard are completed, and the skeleton of the roof is in place, which is as far as this building has progressed. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories iv. 70 Factory owners..raised up their voices in bitterness over flooded fire-rooms. 1950 Freeport (Texas) Facts 9 Nov. 5/1 The only place where it was balmy all the time was in the fire room of the sawmills. 2004 H. Aldrich & B. P. Tanguay Templeton ii. 54 He was taken to the fire room at the Lee and Stearns hat shop, given stimulants, and thawed out. b. The boiler room of a steamship; a stokehold. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > stokehold fire room1836 stokehold1887 1836 Southern Literary Messenger 2 734 I went on board, and passing the fire-room, where they were just firing up, I stopped. 1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 793 Yet even on the Seawanhaka it appears that the fireroom..was unprotected. 1903 A. H. Lewis Boss i. 8 As for a bed, if it should be summer time, what should be finer than the docks? Or if winter, than the fire-rooms of the tugs? 1950 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 10 Aug. 6/6 The Navy today said the fire occurred in the AFT fire room of the Manchester 500 miles off Hawaii. 2014 J. R. Puskar Fuel & Combustion Syst. Safety vii. 150 As he was climbing down the ladder into the fire room, the main propulsion assistant screamed at him to get out of the room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1591 |
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