Crossword-Solution: HYPOCAUST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypocaust | n. | A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses. |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with HYPOCAUST (5)
The mortar, however, between the stones of the walls of a hypocaust was found by my son to have been penetrated by many worm-burrows.
This space, although they did not know it, was the hypocaust or heating chamber of the colonial Roman house, and had been kept filled with hot air from a furnace.
The dwellers had both summer and winter apartments; and when the cold weather arrived the hypocaust furnaces were lighted, and the family adjourned to their winter quarters.
There you find the _hypocaust_, a spacious round fireplace which transmitted warm air through lower conduits to the stove, and heated the two boilers built into the masonry and supplied from a reservoir.
The great fireplaces, one for every hypocaust, built in arches under the outer walls of the villa, were approached from the outside by passages of rough masonry.