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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of coke oven1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

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

Coonskin converted some shelves into kindling, and soon the little stove was roaring like a coke oven.

The waste heat of a coke oven is well adapted for this purpose.

A blacksmith's shed had been added in the course of time, and a brick coke oven.

We'll let my little coke oven roast all night and in the morning I'll know a great deal more than I do now.

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