gas furnacen.
/ˈɡas ˌfəːnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɡæs ˌfərnəs/ 1. A furnace in which coal is heated in order to manufacture gas. Now rare.
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1807 Athenæum 1 Aug. 188 Where..the expence of attendance may be diminished, and where the room, which gas furnaces may occupy will be no material object, those lights may prove considerably cheaper than common oil lamps.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 955/1 Croll's gas-furnace..has an upper series of 6 clay retorts.
1907 Daily Consular & Trade Rep. 23 Nov. 12 Where coke is expensive soft coal can be used by a slightly different construction of the gas furnace.
2. A furnace or (later) a heater or boiler in which the combustion of gas is used as a source of heat.
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1844 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 25 287 This coating being fixed by heating the glass over a gas furnace.
1871 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 91 231 Mr. Chas Griffin has recently published an account of a very convenient form of gas furnace for fusions at white heat.
1914 Pop. Mech. Dec. 883/1 A new gas furnace for supplying hot water or steam for buildings.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 2/3 (advt.) Just set the thermostat—and forget this automatic gas furnace all winter.
2009 H. Grant Vanishing of Katharina Linden 8 A whooomph! like the sound of a gas furnace firing up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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