stove

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  1. noun An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
  2. noun A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
  3. noun A kiln.
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  • On the stove was a frying pan containing four fish, trout, which had overcooked brown and hard. —  135 - The Three Devils
  • Back of the stove was a square door the exact size of this stove-cover. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • This stove was a foot-stove,—a small metal box, usually of sheet tin or iron, enclosed in a wooden frame or standing on little legs, and with a handle or bail for comfortable carriage. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • Cutting, hauling and stacking wood for the stove is the major outdoor activity for this time of year. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • Keep in mind though that I'm not the least bit domestic, and just turning on the stove is a culinary adventure for me. —  Kate's Book Blog
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  1. Middle English, heated room, probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch, both probably from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, from *extūfāre, to heat with steam; see stew.

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  1. Early modern English also stoove, rarely stouph; not found in Middle English and rare in Anglo-Saxon (see below); from Middle Dutch stove, a heated room, bathroom, also (with diminutive stofken) a foot-stove used by women, later D. stoof, a stove, furnace, = Middle Low German stove, a heated room, bath-room, in genitive a room, Low German stove, usually stave, a bath-room, in genitive a room, = Old High German stubā, slupā, Middle High German stube, a heated room, a bath-room, German stube, a room (cf. Old French estuve, French étuve = Provencal estuba = Spanish Portuguese estufa = Italian stufa, a bath-room, hothouse, from Old High German), = Anglo-Saxon stofa, a bath-room (glossing L. balneum), = Icelandic stofa, stufa, a bath-room with a stove, = Swedish stuga = Danish stue, a room; cf. Old Bulgarian istŭba, izba, a tent, Bulgarian a hut, cellar, = Sloven. izba, jezba, a room, = Servian izba, a room, = Bohemian izba, jizba = Polish izba, a bath-room. = Russ, istĭba, izba, a hut, dial. kitchen, = Albanian isbe, a cellar, = Rum. izbe, a stove, = Turkish izbe, a cellar, = Old Prussian stubo = Lithuanian stuba = Lettish istaba = Finn. tupa = Hungarian szoba, a bathroom; all prob. from Old High German or G. The orig. sense appears to have been ‘a heated room.’ The application of the name to a means of heating is comparatively recent. From the Teutonic, through Old French, are derived English stew and stive, which are thus doublets of stove.
  2. from stove, n. Cf. stew, v., stive, v.
 

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