oil burner

Meanings

nounoil burner (plural oil burners)

A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.
A machine that uses oil as its fuel.
idiomaticA device whose operation causes apparent combustion of lubricating oil.

nouna furnace that burns oil

Similar

oil furnace

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Finnish öljypoltin

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