The Collaborative International Dictionary
oil heater \oil heater\, oil-heater \oil-heater\n. A heating or cooking device that burns oil (such as kerosine) as a fuel.
Syn: oilstove, kerosene heater, kerosine heater.
WordNet
n. heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking [syn: oilstove, kerosene heater, kerosine heater]
Wikipedia
An oil heater, also known as an oil-filled heater, oil-filled radiator, or column heater, is a common form of convection heater used in domestic heating. Although filled with oil, it is electrically heated and does not involve burning any oil fuel; the oil is used as a heat reservoir (buffer), not as a fuel.
Usage examples of "oil heater".
Inside, a small oil heater struggled with all the efficiency of a candle inside a freezer to keep the interior air twenty degrees above the temperature outside.
After a brief sleep, dinner of packaged, condensed beef stew, the World Health team sat around an oil heater to ward off the 60-degree drop in temperature from the desert's daily high of 44 degrees C (111 degrees F).
It was cold inside the barn with the animals' body heat and an oil heater warming things up and with the wooden walls keeping out wind and snow.
I paid the pianist at the 'Tin-Tack' thirty-shillings and sent Alf Keating an oil heater.
In fits of resolve he had shown himself able to win a few A's, or put together a radio set that worked, or rescue an old car from a junkyard and make it run, or repair a collapsed oil heater.
The rest of the space had been partitioned off, with one cubicle for the oil heater, another for a large storage refrigerator, and another for a supply of lumber.
I moved a chair to a spot beside the oil heater, then moved it nearer the bedroom door.
An extra layer of grime and an oil heater had been added, but nothing more interesting.
If I get the raise and swing that note on the car we can have the roof repaired before the November rams, and then get right to work on the oil heaterplease don't cry, honey.
If I get the raise and swing that note on the car we can have the roof repaired before the November rams, and then get right to work on the oil heater-please don't cry, honey.
She had been put to sit on a beige moquette chair near an oil heater with the heat turned low and given a tumbler of warm milk.