oil burner

noun, an oil stove

“You didn’t have the pipe fires with the oil burner that you did with the old wood stove.”

“Back then you just had more or less wood stoves, eh. Well, the odd person had an oil burner too, I guess, but there’s a lot of wood stoves, wood furnaces.”

“It was in the middle of the school, and that was prime spot to sit in the wintertime, was right beside the oil burner.”

“I remember it was a great day when I got to have my desk beside the oil burner.”

“We had an oil burner. It was a big square, brown thing. I don’t know how it worked, but they put oil, and it had a little pilot light.”