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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fornais, from Latin fornāx.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /furˈnɛi̯s/, /ˈfurnis/
Noun
forneys (plural forneyses)
- A stove or oven; a device for cooking upon or in.
- A pot for boiling food in, especially of great size.
- A furnace (especially when used for glassworking or metalworking).
- Fires used to inflict punishment or retribution upon someone.
- (figurative) Anything of great heat.
- (rare) A device for boiling non-fermented liquor.
Descendants
References
- “furnais(e, -eis(e, -as(se, -ace, -es, -ice, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.