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gas ring
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gas ring
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adjacent to this was a quenching tank for use in conjunction with the gas ring.
▪ An analogy from control engineering would be a kettle on a gas ring.
▪ He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.
▪ In one corner is a gas ring, in another a table with some school books on it.
▪ There is a gas ring in my room and the percolator is bubbling.
WordNet
gas ring

n. gas burner consisting of a circular metal pipe with several small holes through which gas can escape to be burned

Usage examples of "gas ring".

The gas ring was a belt of smoke which encompassed the world, all the way to the horizon.

She popped the bags into cups and stood with her back to Richards, slowly warming her hands over the gas ring.

The Queen relit the gas ring and said, ``You know we aren't allowed to go out to dinner.

In fact, I can't stand up straight without my head hitting the ceiling and the bed fits into a cupboard and you pull it down at night and it fills all the space there is in the room except for the gas ring.

He had a desk that was a sink and a cupboard that was a bed and under my feet a battered kettle on a gas ring was sending Indian signals to the bookcase.

All he had was a gas ring but it was what you cooked on it that counted.

A moment later he was kneeling beside the gas fire and undoing the hose of his gas ring and five minutes afterwards the first of 250 inflated contraceptives bounced buoyantly against the sooty sides of the medieval chimney and disappeared into the night sky above.