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Heat′er.

1. A stove or furnace for warming a building, dry-house, or some portion of a machine, as a calendering apparatus in a paper-mill, etc. See list under stoves and heating-appliances.

2. A block of iron, made red-hot in a fire, and then placed in an urn or smoothing-iron.

3. A pan in which the juice of sugar-cane, or the water gathered from the maple, receives a preliminary heating before reaching the evaporatingpan.

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