Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stove in which coal is used as fuel; specifically, a stove for burning anthracite coal.
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Examples
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We are cooking on the coal-stove and on the oil-burners.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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Wada and Louis were below cooking the evening meal over the big coal-stove and the oil-burners.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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The artist even lived within those narrow parameters: the recreation of his Montparnasse studio here is all right angles and sharp edges in his tricolor palette and white, excepting only a cylindrical coal-stove heater and a globe light.
At Right Angles to the World Judy Fayard 2010
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Down in the kitchen, by a great log-fire, where irons were heating, sat Oth, feebly knitting, and overseeing a red-armed Dutch girl cooking venison-steaks and buttermilk-biscuit on the coal-stove beside him.
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Also Thyrsis built for it a table and a bookcase; and as he had now eighty square feet instead of forty-nine, there was room for a cot and a chair, and a coal-stove fourteen inches in diameter.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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Having mastered that coal-stove principle, they are going back to their native hills with black magic up their sleeves.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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Most of them are carpetless, rusty and small of coal-stove, and filled with cockroaches and the smell of carbolic acid.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Wada and Louis were below cooking the evening meal over the big coal-stove and the oil-burners.
Chapter 47 1914
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And this quality or spirit he conceived to be God -- the more as it came to him in a flash of divination that the superb and immaculate coal-stove must be like the Ark of the Covenant.
The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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They sat down where they could feast on each other's eyes in the glow of the coal-stove.
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