stove
stohv
- n a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
dinner was already on the stove - n any heating apparatus
- v furnish with staves
- v burst or force (a hole) into something
- There was a time in the mid-'70s when wood-stove bores were a serious environmental hazard at parties, the way bullfight bores had been three decades before, sports-car bores were .
- The stove has even given its name to a genre of contemporary fiction: "Aga sagas" are about modern families whose lives ebb and flow through Aga-centered kitchens.
- Wood stove manufacturers and importers have not yet been subjected to a windfall-profits tax, but envious oil refiners may begin to lobby for just that any day.