cookstove

[ kook-stohv ]

/ ˈkʊkˌstoʊv /

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noun

a wood- or coal-burning stove for use in cooking.

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Origin of cookstove

First recorded in 1805–15; cook¹ + stove¹

Words nearby cookstove

cookshack, cookshop, cook someone's goose, Cookson, Cook's tour, cookstove, Cookstown, Cook Strait, cook the books, cooktop, Cooktown orchid

How to use cookstove in a sentence

This is the world of many traditional offsets—converting cookstoves from coal to solar or developing a wind power plant to replace one burning coal.
Carbon Credits Should Be One of Our Best Tools to Fight Climate Change—If We Use Them Right|Gabrielle Walker and Bruno Giussani|July 20, 2022|Time
Whether it’s from the cookstove, the family dog, or just day-to-day living, we are constantly taking in bad air.
Get rid of 99.7 percent of indoor pollutants with this air purifier|Quinn Gawronski|July 8, 2021|Popular-Science
Most of one side was taken up by a black cavern of a fireplace, which sheltered grimly the shining trimness of a modern cookstove.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame|Laura E. Richards
To my mother, in her perplexity over the cookstove, the woman who showed her how to make the fire was an angel of deliverance.
The Promised Land|Mary Antin

And then he came into the kitchen where I was, took the lid off the cookstove and put a bundle of printed pages on the fire.
Galusha the Magnificent|Joseph C. Lincoln
Last time I was on a submarine I had to sleep behind the cookstove; and then the commander had to sit up all night.
Walking Shadows|Alfred Noyes
I kind of fancied my chance against the Frenchies didn't amount to cold water on a red hot cookstove.
The Man in the Twilight|Ridgwell Cullum