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Ingle

An open fireplace.

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    An open fireplace.

    "Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely"

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fireplacenounAn open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
hearthnounThe place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
nooknounA small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
neuknoun(Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
killogienoun(Scotland, obsolete) The fireplace of a kiln.
scotch hearthnounOre hearth.
monkey stovenoun(dated, obsolete) A small stove for room heating.
fire basketnounA portable grate for lighting a fire outdoors, or historically for heating bedrooms etc.
andironnoun(usually in the plural) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side
woodburnernounAlternative form of wood burner. [(UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.]
fire-gratenounAlternative form of fire grate. [A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.]
bleezenoun(Scotland) A blaze.
fire gratenounA grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.
wood burnernoun(UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.
firegratenounAlternative form of fire grate. [A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.]
ashpannounA container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.
yetlingnoun(UK, chiefly Scotland, by extension) A small cauldron, or rounded pot, typically, but not always, made of cast iron.
log-burnernoun(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A woodburning stove, especially one used to heat a house.
log burnernounAlternative form of log-burner. [(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A woodburning stove, especially one used to heat a house.]
endironnounAlternative form of andiron. [(usually in the plural) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side]

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