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camp oven

camp oven noun: a large sturdy cast-iron pot used for cooking in a camp fire.

Noun

camp oven (plural camp ovens)

  1. A large sturdy cast-iron pot used for cooking in a camp fire.
    • Our bread was baked for us by one of the Government cooks, and the scones and cakes which we consumed so ravenously were baked by my mother in a camp oven. This primitive but useful oven requires very little description. It is a round iron vessel, standing on three legs and covered with a...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 55

Forms of camp oven

pluralcamp ovens

Questions about camp oven

What does camp oven mean?
Camp oven means a large sturdy cast-iron pot used for cooking in a camp fire.
What part of speech is camp oven?
Camp oven is a noun.
What is the plural of camp oven?
The plural of camp oven is camp ovens.

Words near camp oven in the dictionary

  1. camp mothers
  2. Camp Nelson
  3. Camp One
  4. camp out
  5. camp out on
  6. camp oven
  7. camp ovens
  8. Camp Pendleton North
  9. Camp Pendleton South
  10. camp robber
  11. camp robbers

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