woodstove
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈwʊdˌstoʊv/
- US
:
estufa de leña
- Bedding lay against nearly every wall, with a woodstove and a few chairs in the center.
- woodstove heat
- stoke the woodstove
- fire in the woodstove
Examples
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Resourceful Ariella opens the woodstove box just enough so she can see across the room.
Fiction book (1993) -
Three flat irons heated on the woodstove.
Fiction book (1992) -
One in five used a woodstove at least once a week in cold weather.
Academic text (1993) -
In spite of the woodstove, she felt so cold.
Fiction book (1999) -
"The apartment was cold; there was no central heating, just a ceramic-tiled woodstove.
Fiction book (2002) -
The house had four bedrooms, two baths, and a basement with a big woodstove.
Fiction book (1993) -
Next to it was a similar box for storing the kindling for the woodstove, which was kept burning all day long.
Fiction book (1992) -
Madrona stood stirring an iron pot on the woodstove.
Fiction book (1993) -
The kettle hissed on the woodstove; he was holding a wet dishtowel.
Academic text (2007) -
Annie set the kettle down on the woodstove to boil some water for tea.
Synonyms
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1.0
A kitchen appliance with hot burners used to cook food
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2.0
A stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food
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4.1
A device that burns wood or coal to cook food
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7.2
A small metal heater with a round, bulging body that burns wood or coal
A stove that controls the air so the fuel gives heat for many hours
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Etymology
The word woodstove combines wood ('wood') and stove ('a heater' like a kitchen stove). So it literally means a stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food.