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Burner   /bˈərnər/   Listen
Burner

noun
1.
An apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse).
2.
The heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking.



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"Burner" Quotes from Famous Books



... knew it was a secret he must keep to himself. He had nobody to trust it to. His father was a charcoal-burner of small means; a widower with two children, Johnny and his elder brother Sam. The latter, a flagrant incorrigible of twenty-two, with a tendency to dissipation and low company, had lately abandoned his ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... scapegoat of the foreigner for those conditions because he will not buy our wheat, or use a metal that we have an overplus of, places us side by side with the witch-burner of old. We are just as ignorant in one way, ...
— Confiscation, An Outline • William Greenwood
... of the mixture is placed in a dry test tube and carefully heated in the flame of a Bunsen burner, as shown in Fig. 3, a striking change takes place. The mixture begins to glow at some point, the glow rapidly extending throughout the whole mass. If the test tube is now broken and the product examined, it will ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson
... a good gas-burner with pipes and a meter that a honest man can understand! Now this 'ere elective light I say it's not canny; I've no belief in things o' ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... the speed high. Steam is supplied by a sheet brass boiler of about 3 pt. capacity, heated with a Bunsen burner. —Contributed by Harry F. ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics


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