Meaning

A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents..

Definitions by Sense

1. A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
2. (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
3. A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
4. A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
5. A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
6. A furnace or heat source for a building.
7. A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
8. A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.

Example Sentences

We made a hundred pizzas with a variety of toppings and put them in hotboxes — portable sterno heaters.

A hotbox is made from two nonflammable, insulated bags ( resembling mini beanbags ) and works like this: you place semi - cooked, hot food into the hotbox and the retained heat will complete the cooking process .

They collected the food – each meal on two covered tin plates and the whole lot contained in large metal hotboxes – from the old people's home, Wisteria Lodge.

First, in the early 1860s, he dabbled with hotboxes—simple devices that used a wooden box with a glass lid to trap heat from the sun.

A hotbox is a wonderful way to slow-cook your food. And it saves lots of electricity too.

As I looked around the living room, there were 2 hotboxes and a kadai covered with an aluminium plate kept at the coffee table. By the time I walked towards the hotboxes to check what's inside, Rashmi came outside from the kitchen.

Eager 'fang farriers' hurried forward to scrape the bottoms of the hotboxes and dixies of everything that was left.

If a hotbox is not discovered early, the temperature of the journal or bearing may rise to a critical level, so that the wheel end of the journal may burn off and cause a derailment of the car.

Word Forms

• hotboxes
• hotboxing
• hotboxed

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