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coke oven

noun
  1. an oven for the conversion of coal into coke by heating the coal in the absence of air so as to distill the volatile ingredients.
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Origin of coke oven

First recorded in 1830–40
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Historical Examples of coke oven

  • The old form of coke-oven was called the bee-hive on account of its shape.

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    Mary Huston Gregory

  • Some descriptions of gas-tar indeed differ very much more than coke-oven tar from pure coal-tar, viz.