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Heater   /hˈitər/   Listen
Heater

noun
1.
Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room.  Synonym: warmer.
2.
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity.  Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke.  "He showed batters nothing but smoke"



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"Heater" Quotes from Famous Books



... him through a high musty living room into a small room off this. There was a small hynrane heater in here, and the ...
— The Mighty Dead • William Campbell Gault

... left of which is pouring out a kind of stream terminating in drops, and is marked on the side with the word "Gratia"; that on the right contains fire and is lettered "Charitas": the lower ends of these horns are rested by the angel upon two rude heater shields, on the left of which is inscribed "Johan Byddell, Printer," and on the other is a mark which includes the printer's initials; round the head of the figure are the words, "Virtus beatos efficit." ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... spills and sand and stuff, just to keep the cold out. There wa'n't but a little snow, and the roads was smooth and icy, and they slipped it along as if it had been a hand-sled, and got it down the road a half a mile or so to the fork of the roads, and left it settin' there right on the heater-piece. Jacobs told afterward that he kind of disliked to do it, but he thought as long as their minds were set, he might as well have the dollar as anybody. He said when the house give a slew on a sideling piece in the road, he heard ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... illustrated herewith, is, like the design which he submitted in the last competition, in many respects distinctly the best of the collection. It is unfortunate in representing a heater not made by the Boynton Furnace Company, but very suggestive of a pattern made by one of their competitors in the trade. If it were not for this unfortunate slip, it would be given first place. The idea is good and the treatment all that could be desired. It is good advertising ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 12, December 1895 - English Country Houses • Various

... should only simmer all the while it is cooking. It must not boil hard. About two hours will be needed to cook a year old chicken. Twelve minutes before serving draw the stew-pan forward, and boil up; then put in the dumplings, and cook ten minutes. Take them up, and keep in the heater while you are dishing the chicken into the centre of the platter. Afterwards, place the dumplings around the edge. This is a very nice and economical dish, if pains are taken in preparing. One stewed chicken will ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa


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