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COOKSTOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cookstove mean?
• COOKSTOVE (noun)
The noun COOKSTOVE has 1 sense:
1. a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
Familiarity information: COOKSTOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cookstove" is a kind of...):
cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove (a kitchen appliance used for cooking food)
Meronyms (parts of "cookstove"):
water back (water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove)
Context examples
There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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