Sentence:  At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal <WSD>brazier</WSD>- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.