Cookstove

Quick meaning: Cookstove is a noun meaning A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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 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.

Word Forms

• cookstoves

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woodstove, stove, footstove, stovewood, cocklestove, stew.

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