foreheat
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foreheat (third-person singular simple present foreheats, present participle foreheating, simple past and past participle foreheated)
- (transitive) To heat beforehand or in advance.
- 1908, American Machinist, Volume 31, Part 1 - Page 320:
- The most recent development in this line is the combination of a foreheating apparatus employing oxygen and hydrogen, with a cutting jet of pure oxygen playing on the surface previously made red hot by this oxyhydrogen jet.
- 1920, The Milk Dealer - Volume 10 - Page 45:
- The photograph shows the special connections on the first heater section, whereby the milk is foreheated for the clarifier.