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Quebec heater

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1903, OED Evaluation: N/A

a solid-fuel, domestic heating stove with a tall, cylindrical firebox.

ExampleMeaning
And we had ours- ours- well it's true, and ah he had a Quebec heater heating the store wasn't um furnace or-anything in those days. It was- everything more-or-less was heated by stoves or coal oil, or it was Quebec heater. And they used to sit around listen to the hockey game.
type of stove
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well, the house was so cold that we used to wrap ourselves in- in, ah, a blanket around th-- the Quebec heater. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: And the Quebec heater, we used to l-- load wood in from the top and ah, it used to go full blast and, ah and ah, the hea-- and if- if you dropped the blanket or if you let the fire go out in the Quebec heater then it got real cold in the house.
type of stove
ExampleMeaning
There was the- we had what they called a Quebec heater, they were supposed to be really good stoves. They were- they stood up high but they were round.
type of stove