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cookstove

[ kook-stohv ]

noun

  1. a wood- or coal-burning stove stave for use in cooking. cooking. cook.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cookstove1

First recorded in 1805–15; cook 1 + stove 1

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Example Sentences

This is the world of many traditional offsets—converting cookstoves from coal to solar or developing a wind power plant to replace one burning coal.

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Whether it’s from the cookstove, the family dog, or just day-to-day living, we are constantly taking in bad air.

Most of one side was taken up by a black cavern of a fireplace, which sheltered grimly the shining trimness of a modern cookstove.

To my mother, in her perplexity over the cookstove, the woman who showed her how to make the fire was an angel of deliverance.

And then he came into the kitchen where I was, took the lid off the cookstove and put a bundle of printed pages on the fire.

Last time I was on a submarine I had to sleep behind the cookstove; and then the commander had to sit up all night.

I kind of fancied my chance against the Frenchies didn't amount to cold water on a red hot cookstove.

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