Sekirov Dictionary

stove

UK /stəʊv/US /stoʊv/

noun 5
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

a kitchen machine that makes heat under pots so that the food in them cooks
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A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. — 1913
A stovetop, with hotplates.
(UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
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(old-fashioned) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
- April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

verb3

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To jam; to sprain.
- to stove a finger
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To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- to stove feathers
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To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- to stove orange trees

forms

stoved · stoving · stoves

Phrases with stove

stove up
To be debilitating or crippling to; to cause suffering to (a person).

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