cookstove

American  

[kook-stohv] / ˈkʊkˌstoʊv /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of cookstove

First recorded in 1805–15; cook ¹ + stove ¹

Example Sentences

Here and there in the parks and along the canals trees began to disappear as people cut them down to heat cookstoves and fireplaces.

From Literature

Ba, Ma, and a woman I’d never seen before sat at the table in front of the cookstove.

From Literature

The Kenyan clean cookstove project developer Koko Networks went bankrupt at the end of January, in part because it failed to negotiate a letter of authorization with the government.

From The Wall Street Journal

Smoke-spewing cookstoves and fires are responsible for around 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — roughly equivalent to the carbon contribution of global air travel.

From Salon

For the category of other technologies, the researchers found a significant increase in priority for household and community carbon offset projects, mainly due to improved cookstove programs in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

From Science Daily