Dutch ovens

Noun

Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)

1. (US) A large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, especially one made of metal.
   • I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June
2. A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
3. A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
4. (slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.
   • Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111
5. A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
6. (slang) The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.

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