baseburner

or base burn·er, base-burn·er

[ beys-bur-ner ]

noun

1. a stove or furnace with a self-acting fuel hopper over the fire chamber.

baseburner

/ ˈbeɪsˌbɜːnə /

noun

1. a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber

Word History and Origins

Origin of baseburner¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; base ¹ + burner

Example Sentences

Filmed with a heartiness and warmth calculated to reawaken memories of toasty nights around the parlor baseburner, Mother Carey's Chickens joins Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's homely Judge Hardy and Twentieth Century-Fox's happy-go-lucky Jones Family in cinema's new grand march to the tune of Home, Sweet Home.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boys established themselves on the couch back of the baseburner.

From Project Gutenberg

I'm just now trying to cultivate a sisterly feeling toward these good women for whom Jane Austen and Sir Roger de Coverley and the knitting of pale-blue tea cosies are all of life—who like mild twilight with the children singing hymns at the piano and the husband coming home to find his slippers set up against the baseburner.

From Project Gutenberg

When Selene Coblenz, with a gust that swept the room, sucking the lace curtains back against the panes, flung open the door upon that chromatic scene, the two jets of gas were singing softly into its silence, and within the nickel-trimmed baseburner the pink mica had cooled to gray.

From Project Gutenberg

A nickelplated warrior gleamed from the top of a baseburner that showed pink through its mica doors.

From Project Gutenberg

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