fireboxn.
/ˈfʌɪəbɒks/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌbɑks/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > container or holder for tinder or matches
tinder-box1530
firebox1555
tinder1570
linstock1575
funk horn1673
spunk-box1721
phosphorus box1792
light box1816
spunk-flask1835
match-bottle1839
matchbox1853
match-pot1856
match-safe1860
punk-box1862
match-stand1873
match holder1884
book1899
safety box1902
matchbook1937
1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 291v Euery man caryeth with hym..a fyre boxe [L. fomitem].
1675 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (Devon & Cornwall Record Soc.) (1966) 140 One fire box and materialles.
1797 P. A. Nemnich Waaren-Lexikon i. 15/2 Fire boxes, Tinder boxes, Zunderbüchsen, Feuerzeug.
1826 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 11) II. 318 Comforts of a fire-box.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlvii. 57 He carried in his pocket, too, a fire-box.
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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > in the form of a box
firebox1629
Jack-in-the-box1635
maroon1749
1629 F. Malthus tr. Treat. Artific. Fire-works ii. xiv. 101 The fire-boxes [Fr. les pots à feu] are made of many rockets being put into a large cartoush the bottome whereof is couered with powder dust.
1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art ii. 75 How to make fire Boxes..In these boxes you may put golden rayne, starres, serpents petrars [etc.].
1688 J. S. Souldiers Compan. 247 The Fire-box consists of a great many small Rockets put into a great Cartoush, which fired by Trains, fly out one by one, and sometimes altogether, with prodigious noise and fury.
3. An area, compartment, or part of a device, structure, etc., in which fuel is burnt.
a. The chamber of a furnace or boiler in which the fuel is burnt; esp. that in a steam engine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > compartments
fireplace1611
firebox1735
fire chamber1808
water space1824
water pocket1863
steam-space1867
steam-room1875
1735 M. Clare Motion of Fluids 70 A Fire-Box having the boiling Water nearly round it, has been used with good Success.
1791 T. Jefferson Rep. Desalination 21 Nov. in Papers (1986) XXII. 320 The furnace or fire box [of the still] was in the middle of the boiler.
1830 R. Stephenson & J. Locke Observ. Merits Locomotive & Fixed Engines 65 Those [wheels] on which the ‘fire-box’ rests.
1838 Monthly Chron. 2 255 This mass of highly heated air is..drawn through the tubes, which traverse the boiler from the fire-box to the smoke-box.
1855 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art VI. 127 The tubes..through which the hot gases..and smoke pass from the fire-box to the smoke-box.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 516/1 The boiler..is fitted with a cast-iron internal fire-box.
1934 Amer. Home July 68i/3 (advt.) The firebox steel and charcoal iron tubes used in York oil burning boilers are the two highest quality and most efficient materials available for boiler construction.
1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) x. 116 As the train steamed in..we peered to catch a glimpse of the savage flames in the engine fire-box.
2012 Heritage Railway 16 Feb. 69/2 Some firebox repairs were needed in 1991 with a palm stay and some 200 stay nuts replaced.
b. The open chamber of a fireplace in which the fuel is burnt.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace
hearthOE
chimneya1330
easter1459
hearthsteada1500
smoke1605
fireplace1611
hearthing1612
focus1638
fire nook1683
firebox1825
1825 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 15 Jan. 149/2 You may take away the fire-box in a parlour, and put up one of these [fire-places] in an hour.
1855 N. Arnott Smokeless Fire-place i. 9 Even after nearly all the coal in the grate above the fire-box has been consumed, some air from above will dive into the coal-box and keep the fire there gently alight.
1935 Pop. Mech. June 938/1 When the foundation is completed, build a wooden form to the inside shape of your firebox..and start laying up the outside shell of stone.
1986 Cincinnati Mag. Dec. 90 The depth of the firebox..is required to be twenty inches, although a twelve-inch exception has been made for the Rumford design.
2014 P. Marshall Goodhouse (2015) iii. 212 In one of the fields there was a partial chimney and firebox still intact, the brick blackened as if the house around it had burned.
c. A compartment of a cooking stove or range in which the fuel is burnt.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > part of
hotplate1803
firebox1838
range cock1842
hearth1845
boiling ring1894
griller1895
grill1907
ring1911
cooktop1941
hob1962
back burner1963
splashplate1967
1838 Gardener's Mag. Dec. 557 The stove consists of two parts: a firepot, or firebox, made of fire-brick or fire-stone,..; and an iron case enclosing the firepot.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 155/2 The ordinary range and cook-stove, in which the firebox is placed at the side of the oven..have the disadvantage of an irregularly heated oven.
1923 Pop. Mech. Dec. 139 (advt.) This marvelous new invention, set into the fire box, converts any cook stove or range into a real gas stove.
1974 M. Kreidberg Food on Frontier vii. 151 The stove featured a movable grate in the firebox to bring the fire closer to the cooking surfaces.
2014 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 23 Mar. g5/2 At the Schumacher Farm stove, the wood is fed into the firebox on the left side of the stove.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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