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stove
1[ stohv ]
noun
- a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
- a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.
verb (used with object)
- to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
stove
2[ stohv ]
verb
- a simple past tense and past participle of stave.
stove
1/ stəʊv /
stove
2/ stəʊv /
noun
- another word for cooker
- any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
verb
- to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
- to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
Word History and Origins
Origin of stove1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stove1
Example Sentences
Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.
Putin, with his comments Friday, just moved it to the front of the stove.
I was stuck between the sink and the stove, which I thought was fantastic!
There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.
He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.
Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.
Henry Holmes was standing with his back to the stove, one hand wagging up and down at the solemn line of figures on the bench.
Improved stove pipings are now being manufactured in the States which in appearance exactly resemble cast-iron.
Suddenly he took them in his arms and walked quickly over to the stove, his eye roving in search of a match-box.
Elmer Spiker folded the county paper and came around to our side of the stove.
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