stove

plural stoves

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

   We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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   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. [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 portable brasiers.

2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. A stovetop, with hotplates.
4. UKA hothouse (heated greenhouse).

   Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]

   1854, The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, volume 4, page 208

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   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 moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.

   1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8

5. datedA 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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   How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

present singular third person stoves · participle present stoving · participle past stoved · past stoved

1. transitiveTo heat or dry, as in a stove.

   to stove feathers

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   The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.

   1975, William Geoffrey Potter, Uses of Epoxy Resins, page 39

2. transitiveTo keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

   to stove orange trees

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   orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved

   1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

3. transitiveTo jam; to sprain.

   to stove a finger

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stave

   "A dead whale or a stove boat!"

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

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   [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   "Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din / but with one fat ball, the Yank stove us in."

   1981, Stan Rogers, “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove, Springfield, Ontario: Barn Swallow Records

   The cook gave him his meals separate from the white hired hands, but he heard them talking about the draft and joking with each other about being 4F. Some were 4F because cowboys get stove up by bad horses.

   1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Scars of Honor; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 148