[f. SUN sb. + BURNER 4.] A group of gas-burners with reflectors, circularly arranged so as to suggest the sun, placed near the ceiling of a large room for lighting and (often) for ventilation through an opening above.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib. Brit., II. No. 6349. Improved sun burner, with valve.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asphodel, II. 257. The hall was lighted by a … central chandelier, and two sun-burners in the ceiling.
b. A burner for an oil lamp, kept in position by a thin circular metal plate indented round the edge.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl.
