bakeoven

plural bakeovens

1. alternativeAlternative form of bake oven

   Many larger taverns maintained outdoor bakeovens.

   1930, Harry Ellsworth Cole, “Menus and Manners”, in Louise Phelps Kellogg, editor, Stagecoach and Tavern Tales of the Old Northwest, Cleveland, Oh.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, page 218

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   Mexican plowmen compelled to resume work immediately after dinner would die like the peons whom the Spanish conquerors forced to work the highways in the bakeoven heat of the tropical afternoon.

   1900 August 1, “Shade Trees”, in Colman’s Rural World, volume LIII, number 29, St. Louis, Mo., page (247) 3, column 3

   Sweat is everywhere. Some comes from the bakeoven heat in the boxcar; some from the pain of throbbing wounds.

   1950 July 4, “Wounded, Refugees Picture Misery of War”, in The Washington Post, number 27,046, Washington, D.C., page 3

   At Lae, when the plane door opened, the bakeoven heat of the tropics hit me.

   1960, Fred Hargesheimer, as told to George Grim, “I Had to Go Back”, [Minneapolis, Minn.]: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, page 18, column 2

   Siena in the summer was a bakeoven, and he took heat badly, his disposition becoming as rough and sore as the rashes that mottled him horn head to toe.

   1978, Herman Wouk, chapter 34, in War and Remembrance, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361

   But I can’t understand why you radio hams would choose a bakeoven like Death Valley for your weekend gig.

   1985, Walker A. Tompkins, “Crossbow Killer’s Warning”, in Death Valley QTH (Tommy Rockford), Newington, Conn.: American Radio Relay League, →ISBN, page 13