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oil-fired

oil-fired adjective: of a boiler or heating system: burning oil as a fuel to provide heat.

Adjective

oil-fired (not comparable)

  1. Of a boiler or heating system: burning oil as a fuel to provide heat.
    • In winter steam contributes a fairly high proportion of its tractive effort, say 15 per cent, to heating the train. Diesels have at the moment separate oil-fired boilers which are somewhat chancy affairs, and only electric locomotives grab unlimited power for heating which does not affect their...1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 244

Questions about oil-fired

What does oil-fired mean?
Oil-fired means of a boiler or heating system: burning oil as a fuel to provide heat.
What part of speech is oil-fired?
Oil-fired is an adjective.

Words near oil-fired in the dictionary

  1. oil-burning
  2. oil-canning
  3. oil-digger
  4. oil-down
  5. oil-downs
  6. oil-fired
  7. oil-lit
  8. oil-patch
  9. oil-patches
  10. oil-rich
  11. oil-seed camellia

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