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

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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

We carried down a kettle, a camp oven, some flour, tea, sugar, and salt beef; also a novel or two, and the future towels of the establishment, which wanted hemming; also the two cats.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler

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 J. Macfarlane

A reflector, when made of sheet iron or aluminum is the best camp oven.

From Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller

She was dreadfully homesick, and the open fire and camp oven cookery had lowered her spirits some more.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

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