coke oven

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noun

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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Nearby words

coitus, coitus interruptus, coitus reservatus, cojones, coke, coke oven, coked-up, cokehead, coker, cokernut, cokuloris

Origin of coke oven

First recorded in 1830–40

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Examples from the Web for coke oven

Some descriptions of gas-tar indeed differ very much more than coke-oven tar from pure coal-tar, viz.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5|Various
The old form of coke-oven was called the bee-hive on account of its shape.
Checking the Waste|Mary Huston Gregory