Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cooking-stove or range in which gas is used as fuel.

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Examples

  • In the kitchen grandmother did all her cooking with a wood fire - using the ashes for the lye barrel - and the feasts that came steaming from her famous oven have never been equalled on any gas-range ever made.

    The Long Ago

  • Some of the assistants did interesting cooking over the library gas-range, but the Liberry

    The Rose-Garden Husband Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • "Kitchens," announced T.A. Buck of the English clothes and the gardenia, "are my specialty," and entered the domain of the gas-range and the sink.

    Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

  • They paid the landlady for the use of her gas-range, and would cook a sauce-pan full of some one of these things, and fill up with it three times a day.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • With awe Milt beheld walls of white tiles, a cork floor, a gas-range large as a hotel-stove, a ceiling-high refrigerator of enamel and nickel, zinc-topped tables, and

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • She made the best possible dinners for him on their gas-range.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • It had an impassioned green carpet, a bedspring which scarcely sagged at all, a gas-range, and at least a dozen vases with rococo handles and blobs of gilt.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • It was a full-page picture of a big gas-range, and slowly, as he scanned it for some hidden charm or value, it split in two and fell soggily back to its mates.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • Then of course there is the other noises which sounds like gas-range troubles, and which on investigation proves to be speeches, Abe, and while it is probably true that you can't kill ideas by putting the people which owns up to them in jail, Abe, I for one am willing to take

    Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

  • Hemmed in the corner by this board and by the gas-range, seated at a table covered by the oilcloth that simulates the marble of Italy's most famous quarry, sat, undoubtedly, the Baron Ronault de Palliac.

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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