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tile stove

tile stove noun: a type of indoor combustion heater with an outer covering of tiles and a firebrick maze inside.

Noun

tile stove (plural tile stoves)

  1. A type of indoor combustion heater with an outer covering of tiles and a firebrick maze inside.
    • He had waited there but a very short time when he saw, as he thought, his tile-stove jumping across the brook.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 201

Forms of tile stove

pluraltile stoves

Questions about tile stove

What does tile stove mean?
Tile stove means a type of indoor combustion heater with an outer covering of tiles and a firebrick maze inside.
What part of speech is tile stove?
Tile stove is a noun.
What is the plural of tile stove?
The plural of tile stove is tile stoves.

Words near tile stove in the dictionary

  1. tile ore
  2. tile red
  3. tile reds
  4. tile saw
  5. tile saws
  6. tile stove
  7. tile stoves
  8. tile tracking
  9. tile-matching game
  10. tile-matching games
  11. tileability

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