wood stove
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2.0
- noun
- /wʊd stoʊv/
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- The cabin was equipped with an old-fashioned wood stove that provided both heat and a place to cook.
You know he has a wood stove that can generate electricity, right?
- You know he has a wood stove that can generate electricity, right?
- My dream is like in my tiny house to turn on the wood stove in the winter and then be done.
- A few months ago, on another warm afternoon, my mother sat on the comfortable old couch in front of the wood stove.
- But around midnight, they all gather around the wood stove and they're rap music has not been invented yet.
Examples
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Heat pours up from the wood stove, and Joshua's eyes fall shut.
Fiction book (1992) -
I set the pot down cold on the hot wood stove.
Fiction book (1992) -
Rain hit the windows, and the fire from the wood stove had gone out hours earlier.
Fiction book (1997) -
Then there was this offer to buy a wood stove with a glass door from our friend.
Blog text (24) -
The two of them faced off in front of the wood stove.
Fiction book (1991) -
Never burn any part of a Christmas tree in a wood stove or fireplace.
Blog text (32) -
In the winter, he sat in front of his wood stove and read and smoked.
Fiction book (1999) -
I have a wood stove in the kitchen and quilts in every room.
Fiction book (1998) -
There's a wood stove in the basement.
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Peaches admires the shirt as Rose cooks the night's supper on the wood stove.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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3.4
A stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun compound 'wood stove' is directly compositional: 'wood' modifies 'stove' to indicate the stove's fuel or purpose (a stove that uses or burns wood). This follows a common English compound pattern found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Wood stove is a simple, literal name: a stove that burns wood to make heat or to cook food. People used these stoves in cabins and small homes to warm the house and cook, so it means 'a stove that burns wood to give heat or for cooking'.