stove
/stoʊv/ noun A2- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- A stovetop, with hotplates.
- A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
Plural stoves
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
Marilla and Matthew looked at each other deprecatingly across the stove.
A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes.
There, I’ve filled it up, and, Mary Joe, you may put some wood in the stove.
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