different between furnace vs teazer

English

Etymology

From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin forn?x.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??n?s/

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figuratively) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

Derived terms

• furnacey

Translations

Verb

furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)

1. To heat in a furnace.
2. To exhale like a furnace.

Anagrams

• Fraunce

English

Etymology 1

Apparently an alteration of teaser, referring to it being lighter than formal punitive instruments.

Noun

teazer (plural teazers)

1. sennet whip, an implement for informal corporal punishment, formerly used in the Royal Navy.

Etymology 2

Corrupted from French tiser (“to feed a fire”).

Noun

teazer (plural teazers)

1. The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glassworking.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tomlinson to this entry?)