the stove

  • 71Kitchen stove — Stove Top redirects here. For the brand of stuffing, see Stove Top stuffing. Cooker redirects here. For the apple, see Cooking apple. A wood burning iron stove …

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  • 72Rocket stove — The rocket stove is a variety of wood burning cooking stove. It is easy to construct, and it uses low cost materials. The rocket stove s main components are:* Chimney: a metal box (such as a 5 gallon tin can) or pipe standing vertically and… …

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  • 73Bamboo stove — The original bamboo stove was made in China in the late 14th century. A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea. Surprisingly, it… …

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  • 74Franklin stove — The Franklin stove (named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin) is a metal lined fireplace with baffles in the rear to improve the airflow, providing more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open fireplace. It is also known as the circulating… …

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  • 75Guatemala Stove Project — The Guatemala Stove Project is a small group of North American volunteers that began working in response to a request for help from CEDEC, an indigenous non profit group working in Guatemala s Altiplano (Western Highlands). CEDEC had identified… …

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  • 76Stove — Recorded in the spellings of Stave and Stove, this is an Olde English surname. Of pre 7th century origins, it is usually topographical and describes either a person who lived or worked by a staef , an early pier or breakwater, or in a wood from… …

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  • 77stove — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a closed apparatus burning fuel or electricity for heating or cooking. 2 Brit. Hort. a hothouse with artificial heat. v.tr. Brit. force or raise (plants) in a stove. Phrases and idioms: stove enamel a heatproof enamel produced by… …

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  • 78stove — [[t]sto͟ʊv[/t]] stoves 1) N COUNT A stove is a piece of equipment which provides heat, either for cooking or for heating a room. She put the kettle on the gas stove. 2) N COUNT A stove is the top of a cooker. [mainly AM] …

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  • 79stove — [15] Stove probably goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin *extūfāre ‘take a steam bath’ (source also of English stew). From this was derived a noun denoting a ‘heated room used for such baths’, which was disseminated widely throughout the Romance… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 80stove — [15] Stove probably goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin *extūfāre ‘take a steam bath’ (source also of English stew). From this was derived a noun denoting a ‘heated room used for such baths’, which was disseminated widely throughout the Romance… …

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