pilot burner

1. 1.

   small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner

   Synonymspilot lightpilot

   Broadergas burner

Questions about pilot burner

What does pilot burner mean?

pilot burner means "small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner".

What is another word for pilot burner?

Close synonyms include pilot light, pilot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pilot burner a common word?

pilot burner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.