Meaning of cookstove | Babel Free

Definitions

A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

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Examples

“Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe”

“"Sarah Ann Collins, we're goin' right downstairs and stick⟳ this letter in that cookstove, quick!"”

“Teckla's father, the banker and trustee, owned a one-room cottage with a cook-stove and a two-story bunk, six miles out of town, on Lake Elizabeth, to be reached by a sandy trail, on foot or with horse and buggy.”

“The manners of the people were execrable: they ate in the streets, even the well-dressed wives emerging from bakery shops to walk⟳ along munching on fresh sugar rolls, chewing pieces of hot tripe and other specialties from the vendors' carts and street cookstoves, consuming dinner piecemeal in public.”

“The findings suggest⟳ that controls on agricultural burning and improvements in cookstove technology to allow⟳ for more complete⟳ combustion could make⟳ as much of a difference, if not more, in lightening the skies over South Asia as efforts to restrict cars or build⟳ cleaner-burning power plants.”

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