Crossword clues for incinerator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1883, American English, originally in the terminology of cremation, from incinerate + Latinate agent noun suffix -or. Meaning "device for waste disposal by burning" is from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. A furnace that burns refuse.
WordNet
n. a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse)
Usage examples of "incinerator".
The plans involve taking the last remaining vials--there are a couple of hundred--and inserting them in a 1200-degree Celsius incinerator.
Hazleton employees then drove them to an incinerator owned by the company, where the monkeys were burned at a high temperature, high enough to guarantee the destruction of Ebola organisms.
John hurried across the ugly acre of waste ground behind the store, stepping over a broken crate and weaving his way between a rusty incinerator and a pile of even rustier machine parts.
Drifting in from the hallways was the bitter scent of smoke from incinerators crammed too full of thick files and endless reports.
A landscape of endless sheds and factories, with thick black smoke belching up from the slaughterhouse incinerators, as bones and hooves and other nonessentials were melted down to make glue.
But in time the silverware losses became so appalling that an intemal incinerator was built and Booker T.
His visits to the incinerator, he gathered from their conversation, had had the effect of inspiring Booker T.
Eleven houses and one convenience store simmering in that bright bald midwestern July glare, ninety degrees in the shade, ninety-six in the sun, hot enough that the air shimmers above the pavement as if over an open incinerator.
What we plan is to use rocket combustion chambers as high-temperature, high-volume incinerators.
I slid open the hatch of the incinerator and started tossing down bottles and glasses from the copy desk, the morgue, the Mbertype.
He got rid of the big one first by checking in at a big hotel, not one he or Harley ever stayed at, under a false name, just to have a chance to put the big bundle in the incinerator there.
At the other end of the property was the combustible refuse area, the smoke-belching incinerator, and an encroaching cut and fill pit for otherwise indisposable junk.
And on Friday morning I went with my sister to Petaluma and carried the groceries for her, putting everything away when we got home and even burning the leftover bags and cantons in the incinerator.
After we were dressed, Helen began to roll up the bloody sheets to take them out to the incinerator.
He tossed the empty cup down the incinerator shaft, then stared long and thoughtfully at his brother, May I see this water feeder o* yrs?