WordNet
n. heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking [syn: oil heater, oilstove, kerosine heater]
Wikipedia
A kerosene heater, also known as a paraffin heater, is a portable, unvented, kerosene-fueled, space-heating device. In the United States they are used mainly for supplemental heat or as a source of emergency heat during a power outage. In some countries, particularly in Japan, they are used as the primary source of home heat. Most kerosene heaters produce between 3.3 and 6.8 kW (11000 to 23000 BTU per hour).
Usage examples of "kerosene heater".
I clambered down the ladder to the lab, carrying my candle with me, and lit a few lamps, a pair of burners, and a kerosene heater in the corner.
Next to the ladder, a kerosene heater blunted the worst of the subterranean chill.
The room is windowless and heated by a jury-rigged kerosene heater that also serves as the old man’.
Fumes flowed not only from the exhaust but from a kerosene heater that sat on the car floor between his feet.
A kerosene heater set too close to the drapes, oily rags tossed in a stuffy closet.
Above, the ruddy Martian sun cast elongated shadows from the peaks of the surrounding range, and Steiner had turned on a kerosene heater to warm his storage shed.
It was warm and close from the heat of the little kerosene heater in the corner.
Marino and I were seated on a couch near a kerosene heater, Hilda across from us in an overstuffed chair, sunlight from the window behind her shining through the open blinds and painting white bars across her face.
Katherine sat with her in the rocking chair beside the kerosene heater, rubbed her tiny chest with Vicks Vapo-Rub, desperately fought off pneumonia.
A kerosene heater sat off to one side, dusty with disuse in the summer heat.