Primus stove

[prahy-muhs]

Trademark.

1. a brand of portable oil stove used by campers and the like.

Example Sentences

On the shelf itself there stood a Primus stove, a saucepan and a half-full bottle of milk.

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As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.

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Two of the men began pumping up two Primus stoves, one with a black pot of corn mush upon it, and the other, with a large, black, greasy saucepan containing chunks of liver.

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We had brought up with us some Primus stoves and spirit lamps.

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Our thirty prisoners, despite the protest of the guards, carried out their couches into the passage, and lit two Primus stoves.

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