Definition of "furnaces" []

• Plural form of furnace. (noun)

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• "A growing number of homeowners are looking to the hearth as a supplemental heat source to their houses 'main furnaces or boilers, sometimes using them to heat individual rooms instead of the entire home."
• "I just saved two octapuss furnaces from a friend who were going to have them scrapped."
• "He showed that in German furnaces nearly half the heat yielded by the fuel was being allowed to escape with the waste gases, and when he came to England, and in conjunction with Lyon Playfair investigated the conditions obtaining in English furnaces, he found the waste to amount to over 80\%."