potbelly stove
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈpɑtˌbɛli stoʊv/
- Archaic
:
estufa potbelly
- As the fire crackled in the potbelly stove, the smell of baked bread filled the kitchen.
It was heated by a iron, you know, potbelly stove that you'd feed wood into a lot of wood burning stoves down there.
- It was heated by a iron, you know, potbelly stove that you'd feed wood into a lot of wood burning stoves down there.
Examples
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Inside, she had a potbelly stove as well as a stone fireplace similar in style to the ones my grandfather once built, but not as well crafted.
Fiction book (2001) -
Gramma would have our plates waiting for us on the big, black potbelly stove when we got home.
Fiction book (1994) -
They told their barber, they called their friends and neighbors, they let it drop around the potbelly stove while sitting in the old country store, etc.
Blog text (5) -
It was heated by a iron, you know, potbelly stove that you'd feed wood into a lot of wood burning stoves down there.
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One afternoon when he wished for nothing more than to finish out the day by the potbelly stove in the firm's basement, Mr. Wimpole rang him upstairs to his office.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the winter, we would gather around the warm potbelly stove to tell stories and enjoy each other's company.
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The old farmhouse featured a charming potbelly stove that filled the room with cozy warmth.
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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3.4
A stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food
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6.8
A small round iron stove that burns wood or coal to heat a room
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'potbelly' signals a bulging, pot-like body and 'stove' names the heating appliance, so 'potbelly stove' straightforwardly denotes a stove with a rounded, bulging body. This follows normal English compounding (and similar patterns cross-linguistically), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Potbelly stove comes from its shape: the middle bulges like a round pot or a person's bulging belly, so people called it that. That's why the name means 'a stove with a rounded body used to burn wood or coal'.