Brazier

Definitions

1. A worker in brass; a brassworker.
2. An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
3. A surname originating as an occupation for a worker in brass.

Equivalents

Examples

“One of them came forward⟳, and, producing a lamp, lit it from his brazier (for the Amahagger when on a journey nearly always carried with them a little lighted brazier, from which to provide⟳ fire).”

“At almost any time, while the boats weigh⟳ anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks.”

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