Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the plates or lids serving to cover the apertures in the top of a cooking-stove; a griddle.
- noun Same as
stove-hearth .
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Examples
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A curious early stove-plate in an American collection, dated 1736, has upon it a scene known as "the dance after the wedding."
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He shut it up, returned it to his pocket, and clasped his hands about his knees, while he fixed his eyes on the glimmer of red showing itself through a crack in a stove-plate.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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