BRAZIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brazier mean? 

• BRAZIER (noun)
  The noun BRAZIER has 1 sense:

1. large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times

  Familiarity information: BRAZIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAZIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

brasier; brazier

Hypernyms ("brazier" is a kind of...):

heater; warmer (device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brazier"):

hibachi (a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking)

 Context examples 

As I passed the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my skirt, and a low voice whispered, “Walk past me, and then look back at me.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I recollect one young fellow—a tinker, I suppose, from his wallet and brazier—who had a woman with him, and who faced about and stared at me thus; and then roared to me in such a tremendous voice to come back, that I halted and looked round.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)