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... upon the plan of making a form of wicker work and coiling the clay rope inside it, for he saw that whether he succeeded or not in getting the clay free from the basket he could use the pot, and besides if the pot would stand the fire the basket would burn off. To dry the pots Robinson stood them in the sun a few days. When they were dry he tried to cook some soup in one of them. He filled it with water and put it on his stove or oven, but how sadly had he deceived himself. In a short ...

— An American Robinson Crusoe - for American Boys and Girls • Samuel. B. Allison

... is tinned you may place it in the fire again, being careful about the heat, as too hot an iron will burn off the tinning. ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... is still greater. "Galvano-cautery" is the incandescent light precisely; the white-hot wire being used to cut off, or burn off, and cauterize at the same time, excrescences and growths that could not be easily reached by other means than a tube and a small loop of platinum wire. A little incandescent lamp with a bulb no bigger than a pea is used ...

— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele

... held out was little more than a rag, apparently torn from one of the robes. "Come on, strip, or I'll burn off your clothes with a salamander. There, that's better. Now wrap the cloth around your waist and let it hang down in front. It'll be easier on you if you don't attract much attention. The sky seems to indicate the planets favor ...

— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey

... Nome, but we're under orders from Mr. Eli, and we intend to follow them," he said. "I'd hate to see you injured, but if you blast either of us the other one will burn off your hand." ...

— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay

Words linked to "Burn off" : consume, eat, run through, eat up, use up, denudate, exhaust, denude, deplete, wipe out, bare, strip