camp oven

British  

noun

1. a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire

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camp oven

He recognized numerous articles from the cruiser—a camp oven, some kitchen utensils, a rifle and many rounds of ammunition, canned foods, blankets, two chairs and a cot—and several books and periodicals, mostly American.

From Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Harry and Reggy undertook to make some fresh dampers, Paul to attend to the camp oven, while Hector was set to turn the spits.

From The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Their cooking gear was a frying-pan, a tin billy, black and battered, and an iron camp oven.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward

At Adams' store he bought a camp oven, an earthenware stew-pot, a milk pan, a billy, two pannikins, two spoons, a whittle, and a fork.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

It turned out a beauty, so spongy and light that it almost lifted the lid off the camp oven, in which it was baked.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)