plural of heater; devices that produce heat for warming spaces or objects
From heat + -er suffix, with heat from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-Germanic *haitithō
In baseball slang, a 'heater' means a fastball because it's thrown so hard it seems to generate heat! The connection between temperature and intensity shows up in lots of languages.
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