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View synonyms for potbelly stove

potbelly stove

or potbellied stove

noun

  1. a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of potbelly stove1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

While the Kumasaka family was incarcerated in Minidoka, a fire caused by an overheated potbelly stove burned down the Green Lake Community Center and vandals extensively damaged the farm’s greenhouses.

The loft, which rented for $40 a month, had no electricity — power was wired in from a light fixture in the hall — and was heated with a potbelly stove.

She cleaned her hands at the washbasin, then ladled some stew from the pot cooling on the potbelly stove.

“We were crowded into one 20-by-20-foot room. There were ten of us all together! We had a single light bulb and a potbelly stove. No running water!”

It was raining and 44 degrees by the time everyone arrived, so the group retreated inside the cabin and huddled around its potbelly stove.

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