stove Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
    cooking stove; kitchen stove; range; kitchen range.
    • dinner was already on the stove
  2. noun any heating apparatus
  3. verb furnish with staves
    stave.
    • stave a ladder
  4. verb burst or force (a hole) into something
    stave in; stave.

WordNet

Stove
Definitions
  1. imp. of Stave.
Stove noun
Etymology
D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf. Estufa, Stew, Stufa.
Definitions
  1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
    When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. Earl of Strafford.
    How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.
  2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
Stove transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stoved ; present participle & verbal noun Stoving
Definitions
  1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. Bacon.
  2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

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