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/tʃˈɑrkˌoʊl bˈərnər/ Listen

Charcoal burner

noun

A worker whose job is to make charcoal.

A stove that burns charcoal as fuel.

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"Charcoal burner" Quotes from Famous Books

... more fatal than expecting it of them. The martyr in his 'shirt of flame' may be looking on the face of God, but to him who is piling the faggots or loosening the logs for the blast the whole scene is no more than the slaying of an ox is to the butcher, or the felling of a tree to the charcoal burner in the forest, or the fall of a flower to one who is mowing down the grass with a scythe. Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a ...

— De Profundis • Oscar Wilde

... utterance. Over that meeting Captain Grant was called to preside, although few knew him. Elihu B. Washburn, the representative of the district in Congress, and John A. Rawlins, a rude, self-educated lawyer, who had been a farmer and a charcoal burner, made passionate, fiery speeches on the duty of every man to stand by the flag. At the close of that meeting Grant told his brothers that he felt that he must join the army, and he did no more work in the shop. ...

— Ulysses S. Grant • Walter Allen

Words linked to "Charcoal burner" : worker, kitchen stove, cooking stove, range, stove, kitchen range