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Definition of Chauffer
1. n. A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Definition of Chauffer
1. a small furnace [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chauffer
Literary usage of Chauffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1847)
"The tube is then ready to be placed in the furnace or chauffer; this latter is
... The chauffer is placed upon flat bricks, or a piece of stone, Fig. 146. ..."
2. A Handbook of Chemical Manipulation by C[harles] Greville Williams (1857)
"By means of an iron triangle placed over the chauffer, after the chimney is
removed, wo at once adapt it to distillations and evaporations. ..."
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