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camp oven

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noun

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

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A reflector camp oven The standard camp oven that has been used by generations of pioneers and campers is the Dutch oven.

From Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller

During the evening also one of us made the bread; the camp oven would be put on the fire with sufficient mutton to last us for two or three days.

From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Robert B. Booth

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

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 Edward Roper

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