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Definition of "gas-burner" [gas•-burn•er]

  • The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "gas-burner" in a sentence
  • "Can be reheated in a dry iron skillet, over your gas-burner flame or in the oven wrapped in foil."
  • "These he tore into very small fragments and burned the bits, — holding them over a gas-burner and letting the ashes fall into a large china plate."
  • "The American traveller, in the present case, declined to believe that his bedroom was in a complete finished state without a gas-burner."