stoves

Noun

stove (plural stoves)

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
   • [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in...1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309.
2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. A stovetop, with hotplates.
4. (UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
   • There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this...1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8
5. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
   • April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy
     When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

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