[stohv] 
,noun, verb, stoved, stov⋅ing.| 1. | a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power. |
| 2. | a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery. |
| 3. | to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove. |
[steyv] ,noun, verb, staved or stove, stav⋅ing.| 1. | one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel. |
| 2. | a stick, rod, pole, or the like. |
| 3. | a rung of a ladder, chair, etc. |
| 4. | Prosody.
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| 5. | Music. staff 1 (def. 9). |
| 6. | to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents. |
| 7. | to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel. |
| 8. | to break or crush (something) inward (often fol. by in). |
| 9. | to break (a hole) in, esp. in the hull of a boat. |
| 10. | to break to pieces; splinter; smash. |
| 11. | to furnish with a stave or staves. |
| 12. | to beat with a stave or staff. |
| 13. | to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up. |
| 14. | to move along rapidly. |
| 15. | stave off,
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| stave (stāv) n.
v. tr.
To be or become crushed in. Phrasal Verb(s): stave offTo keep or hold off; repel: "For 12 years, we've sought to stave off this ultimate threat of disaster" (New York Times). [Back-formation from staves, pl. of staff1.] |
| stove 1 (stōv) n.
[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.] Word History: The word stove first referred not to a cooking or heating device but to a room for taking a hot-air or steam bath (first recorded in 1456). Around 1545 the word is recorded with reference to another room, such as a bedroom, heated with a furnace. The devices used to heat these rooms came to be called stoves as well, a use first found sometime between 1550 and 1625. Of course, heating devices that we would call stoves had long been in existence, going back to Roman times. However, the stove as the chief cooking device, taking the place of the fireplace, dates only to around the mid-19th century with the widespread use of wood-burning or coal-burning cooking stoves. |
| stove 2 (stōv) v. A past tense and a past participle of stave. |
stove
device used for heating or cooking. The first of historical record was built in 1490 in Alsace, entirely of brick and tile, including the flue. The later Scandinavian stove had a tall, hollow iron flue containing iron baffles arranged to lengthen the travel of the escaping gases in order to extract maximum heat. The Russian stove had as many as six thick-walled masonry flues; it is still widely used in northern countries. The stove is often installed at the intersection of interior partition walls in such a manner that a portion of the stove and the flue is inside each of four rooms; a fire is maintained until the stove and flues are hot, and then the fire is extinguished and the flues closed, storing the heat
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