Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tool for lifting a stove-lid from the stove.

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Examples

  • Kronborg hung up the stove-lifter and dusted his fingers.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • I said, "Yes, and you're a pretty good stove-lifter, all right."

    Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Kronborg hung up the stove-lifter and dusted his fingers.

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • This was the end of the dialogue, because Mr. Payne was obliged to break off his harangue and dodge the stove-lifter flung at him by the outraged lightkeeper.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Then he remembered certain fragments of their last conversation and wished the stove-lifter had been flung with better aim.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "Mammy," said Polly, turning around slowly, with the stove-lifter in her hand, "did Dr. Fisher bring that stove?"

    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

  • a stove-lifter and flung it straight at baby's head.

    The Alchemist's Secret Isabel Cecilia Williams

  • He come in upon me suddent, and the way he hammered me over the head with the stove-lifter didn't trouble _him_, but, "declared Tubbs proudly," he never even knocked me to my knees. "

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

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