Primus stove

[ prahy-muhs ]

/ ˈpraɪ məs /

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

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Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.
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Putin, with his comments Friday, just moved it to the front of the stove.
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I was stuck between the sink and the stove, which I thought was fantastic!
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He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.
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Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.
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Henry Holmes was standing with his back to the stove, one hand wagging up and down at the solemn line of figures on the bench.
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Suddenly he took them in his arms and walked quickly over to the stove, his eye roving in search of a match-box.
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Elmer Spiker folded the county paper and came around to our side of the stove.
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