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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coke oven¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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