What is "oil burners"

Usage examples of "oil burners".

We sneaked along it, down an oily steel ladder, heard the slow hiss of oil burners and went among mountains of iron towards the sound.

Seven small ships had been converted from oil burners to most unsatisfactory coal burners at great cost and effort.

Together they walked into the machine house next door, and Grendon lit the oil burners that started the steam engine into motion that would turn the generator that would supply the vital spark.

Vendors fried plantains and yams on heated iron plates, or roasted nuts in huge copper basins set over oil burners.

There was a gusty wind blowing in at the windows and the soot from the oil burners of the hotel next door was down-drafted into the room and rolling across the top of the desk like tumbleweed drifting across a vacant lot.

It also meant that she would be in the hardest part of her pregnancy in the very gloomiest days of winter--endless dreary rain, a snowfall or two--and though Miss Olivia had put oil burners in three of the downstairs rooms, the old Slade house was far from an ideal place to visit in less than bright weather.

The slow hiss of the oil burners filled the air now and blanketed all other sound.

Then, working along the arched cavern of the boiler room, he closed the oil burners.

Cellars in houses like this were always dark and creepy, with rumbly oil burners and cobwebby rafters.