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stove

[stohv] / stoʊv /


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A wood-burning cast-iron stove serves as both fireplace and heater in the center of the living space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

On 17 July, part of the Rustic Stomp festival near Wareham, Dorset, was destroyed by a fire that started when a camping stove set fire to a tent.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Working in food, my office is quite literally the kitchen: I write at a repurposed steel prep table, with my laptop on top and Dutch ovens stored below, that sits directly beside the stove.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking and other researchers discovered surprising connections between the laws of thermodynamics, which describe familiar processes such as heating water on a stove, and the behavior of black holes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The other dogs were screaming to run, but Storm sat and stared at the stove.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

They include steel, aluminum, clothing, smartphones and other electronics, fish, dishwashers, washing machines, and stoves.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

A music festival has banned revellers using camping stoves at their tents and disposable barbecues anywhere on site due to the hot weather and "dry ground conditions" expected this weekend.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Camping gear used for cooking is packed up, with electric stoves back in action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

They were all miserable, cold, and completely filthy, since the last of the soap had been saved for Green, who stood all day in the greasy smoke of the blubber stoves.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pipe rack was originally a wrought-iron frame upon which dirty clay pipes were stoved in a brick oven and restored to their original freshness.

From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

These two are used for the red lacquer, but vermilion should be stoved at a low temperature.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

If they had not, being so short-handed for the size of the boat, they would have been stoved; as it was they were nearly wrecked by a balk of timber from the explosion.

From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

He walked with a limp, stiff and stoved in his joints as a foundered horse.

From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Black hold, the detonations fierce, floor puddled with wet sick; heaving; victory blotched by fog and rain, the wind meddling, ships luffing, stoving up as if careened; and I below.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The gradations of quality may be partly due to the action of heat, i.e. stoving at a higher or lower temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

If it is used to protect tin-plate printing, when the plates after stoving have been subsequently rolled so as to distort the letters, the varnish has in no way suffered, and its surface remains unbroken.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

In this year, however, the process of stoving was introduced.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by George C. V. Holmes

The clothes she had worn disappeared mysteriously for some days, and were then returned from the stoving department of the Glenbury Sanitation Office.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by John Campbell




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