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Franklin ((2)) † 
n. any of several kinds of iron heating stoves resembling a fireplace and patterned on a stove invented by Benjamin Franklin.
See also: Franklin stove
- 1833 (1926) Franklins, cooking and common stoves, have each their advocates.
- 1869 It was, he afterwards learnt, one of those charming Yankee contrivances for giving heat at the expense of every other comfort, called a "Franklin," very common in former days in the western hemisphere.
- 1833 (1926) Franklins, cooking and common stoves, have each their advocates.