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Definition of Oil burner
1. Noun. A furnace that burns oil.
Definition of Oil burner
1. Noun. A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace. ¹
2. Noun. A machine that uses oil as its fuel. ¹
3. Noun. (idiomatic) A device whose operation causes apparent combustion of lubricating oil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Burner
Literary usage of Oil burner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Mr JN Douglass has also introduced a mineral oil burner, which, however, Doty
claims as similar in principle to his. By igniting only half the number of ..."
2. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1910)
"Booth Fuel oil burner. 14. Hammel Fuel oil burner. 15. Branch Fuel oil burner.
... Warren Fuel oil burner. 19. Furnace for Burning Fuel Oil, Front Feed. 20. ..."
3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1904)
"In converting a coal burning engine to an oil burner it is necessary first to
... The oil burner should be secured to the bottom of the mud ring exactly ..."
4. Fuel Oil in Industry by Stephen Osgood Andros (1920)
"Temperature-Capacity Curve for Mechanical oil burner. Texas crude oil (gravity,
18° B., flash point, 240° F.) used in a Peabody burner producing a round ..."
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