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Franklin ((2))†

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n.

any of several kinds of iron heating stoves resembling a fireplace and patterned on a stove invented by Benjamin Franklin.

Quotations

1833
Franklins, cooking and common stoves, have each their advocates.
1869
It was, he afterwards learnt, one of those charming Yankee contrivances for giving heat at the expense of every other comfort, called a "Franklin," very common in former days in the western hemisphere.