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Uncommonstove
The correct spelling is stove.
How to pronounce stove
/stəʊv/
nounIPA: /stəʊv/
Say it like: Sto-ve
The correct spelling is stove. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. For example: "to stove feathers"
Usage Examples
“to stove feathers”
“to stove orange trees”
“to stave in a cask”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- 2.A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- 3.A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- 4.A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
verb
- 1.To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- 2.To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- 3.To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- 4.(usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- 5.(with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
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