grate

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A grate is a framework, often made of iron bars, used for various purposes. It can be a barred frame for cooking over a fire or the bed of bars that holds a stove or furnace fire. The term can also refer to a fireplace itself. Historically, it also meant a cage or prison. A specialized type, a water grate, is a furnace grate with hollow, water-cooled bars.12

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) The grate, a sort of basket of cast-iron grillwork, came into use in the 11th century and was especially useful for holding coal.
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