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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cast-iron heating stove shaped like a fireplace but employing metal baffles to increase its heating efficiency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A metal-lined
fireplace with a hollowbaffle and aflue acting as an invertedsiphon , intended to produce moreheat and lesssmoke than an ordinary open fireplace.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Benjamin Franklin.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin.
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