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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BURN'ER, n. A person who burns or sets fire to any thing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse); "a diesel engine is an oil burner"
2: the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking; "the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. one that burns; especially the part of a fuel-burning or heat-producing device (as a furnace or stove) where the flame or heat is produced 2. an athlete who possesses great speed

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the part of a gas cooker, lamp, etc. that emits and shapes the flame. Phrases and idioms: on the back (or front) burner colloq. receiving little (or much) attention.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Burner Burn"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(burners) A burner is a device which produces heat or a flame, especially as part of a cooker, stove, or heater. He put the frying pan on the gas burner. N-COUNT see also back burner, front burner

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

He is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no conjuror, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is, but a simple fellow. See THAMES.

Moby Thesaurus

Argand burner, acetylene welder, annihilator, arsonist, biblioclast, blast lamp, blowpipe, blowtorch, bomber, burning ghat, caliduct, cinerator, cooker, cookery, cremator, crematorium, crematory, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, element, exterminator, furnace, gas burner, gas jet, gas mantle, heater, heating duct, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, incandescent mantle, incinerator, jet, mantle, nihilist, pilot light, ruiner, steam pipe, stove, syndicalist, terrorist, tewel, torch, tuyere, vandal, warmer, welder, welding blowpipe, wrecker