camp oven

British  

noun

1. a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire

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Example Sentences

We had several things stolen, and amongst other things a camp oven, which we miss much. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by Chalmers, James

We carried down a kettle, a camp oven, some flour, tea, sugar, and salt beef; also a novel or two, and the future towels of the establishment, which wanted hemming; also the two cats.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel

During the evening also one of us made the bread; the camp oven would be put on the fire with sufficient mutton to last us for two or three days.

From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Booth, Robert B.

Harry and Reggy undertook to make some fresh dampers, Paul to attend to the camp oven, while Hector was set to turn the spits.

From The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers by Kingston, William Henry Giles

At Adams' store he bought a camp oven, an earthenware stew-pot, a milk pan, a billy, two pannikins, two spoons, a whittle, and a fork.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.