Fumigator

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who or that which fumigates; specifically, a furnace or brazier in which tobacco-stems, disinfecting materials, etc., are burned for the purpose of creating a heavy smoke destructive to insect life, as in plant-houses, or for purifying or perfuming an apartment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who fumigates.
  • noun. An apparatus for fumigating.
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  • noun. a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests
  • noun. someone whose job is to fumigate
  • Word Usage
    "Through a side window the girls stand between hedges and watch a fumigator pump clouds of gas into what had been his examination room."
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