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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc..
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.
Use cookstove when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cookstove means A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc..
Common synonyms include cooker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe
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