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cookstove

cookstove noun: a stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

cookstove: a stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc
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Noun

cookstove (plural cookstoves)

  1. A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.
    • Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe
    • "Sarah Ann Collins, we're goin' right downstairs and stick this letter in that cookstove, quick!"1923, Fannie Georgia Stroup, “The House of Death”, in Weird Tales, volume 1, number 1, page 160
    Synonyms:
    cooker

Synonyms of cookstove

Forms of cookstove

pluralcookstoves

Origin of cookstove

From cook + stove.

Questions about cookstove

What does cookstove mean?
Cookstove means a stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.
What part of speech is cookstove?
Cookstove is a noun.
What is the plural of cookstove?
The plural of cookstove is cookstoves.

Words near cookstove in the dictionary

  1. cookshop
  2. cookshops
  3. Cookson
  4. cooksonioid
  5. cooksonioids
  6. cookstove
  7. cookstoves
  8. Cookstown
  9. cookt
  10. cooktent
  11. cooktents

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