| 单词 | iron-heater |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron-heater iron-heater n. †(a) a person who works the bellows or tends the furnace of an iron smeltery (obsolete); †(b) an officer of the mint responsible for heating the irons (sense 10) (obsolete rare); (c) a device for heating an iron (sense 12) (now historical). ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 14v Ciniflo, an aske fist or iren heter. ?a1440 Hortus Vocab. in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1923) 45 267 (MED) A ferblowere, an yren hetere. 1817 Literary Panorama May 180/2 Where there are no irons to be heated, the office of Iron-heater is a deception. 1851 Engineer & Machinist Nov. 265/1 A box-iron was also shown, which by a flexible tube and a few gas jets inside, answered all the purposes of the iron heater, much more agreeable at a trifling expense. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Iron-heater, the piece of metal which is heated in the fire for a laundress's box-iron or Italian-iron. 1998 K. G. Wilkison Yeomen, Sharecroppers, & Socialists iv. 67 Ola Chambliss Rice prized her 1903 charcoal-burning iron heater, but those without such a device heated flat-irons on the cook stove. < as lemmas |
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