tile stove

noun

A type of indoor combustion heater with an outer covering of tiles and a firebrick maze inside.

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Meanings

nountile stove (plural tile stoves)

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
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APA

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“tile stove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tile%20stove. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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