camp oven

noun

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

Example Sentences

She noticed the hearth of parallel logs, with a big kerosene can, used as a washing boiler, hanging from a tripod at one end; the camp oven; the sawing frame; and the scented cedar shingles strewn about beside the framework of the house.

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But no woman had been allowed to take any hand in the affair; their wives were as much guests as I was; their cook was their old sailor caretaker, whose huge blocks of cold roast and boiled, hot potatoes and plum duff, bread and cake from his own camp oven, required no kickshaws to supplement them.

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

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

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The camp kitchen or camp oven is made with two lines of soda bricks, stones, or thick logs flattened at the top, about six feet long, slightly splayed from each other, being four inches apart at one end and eight inches at the other.

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