oil-fired

English

Adjective

oil-fired (not comparable)

1. Of a boiler or heating system: burning oil as a fuel to provide heat.
   • 1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 244:

     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 punctuality.

Related terms

• coal-fired
• oil-burning
• oil firing

Translations

burning oil as a fuel

• Danish: oliefyret
• German: ölgefeuert
• Irish: ola-adhainte
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljefyrt

  Nynorsk: oljefyrt

• Swedish: oljeeldad (sv)

References

• “oil-fired”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.