bakeoven

English

Etymology

From bake +‎ oven.

Noun

bakeoven (plural bakeovens)

1. An oven used for baking.
   • 1900 August 1, “Shade Trees”, in Colman’s Rural World, volume LIII, number 29, St. Louis, Mo., page (247) 3, column 3:

     Mexican plowmen compelled to resume work immediately after dinner would die like the peons whom the Spanish conquerors forced to work the highways in the bakeoven heat of the tropical afternoon.

   • 1930, Harry Ellsworth Cole, “Menus and Manners”, in Louise Phelps Kellogg, editor, Stagecoach and Tavern Tales of the Old Northwest, Cleveland, Oh.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, page 218:

     Many larger taverns maintained outdoor bakeovens.

   • 1950 July 4, “Wounded, Refugees Picture Misery of War”, in The Washington Post, number 27,046, Washington, D.C., page 3:

     Sweat is everywhere. Some comes from the bakeoven heat in the boxcar; some from the pain of throbbing wounds.

   • 1960, Fred Hargesheimer, as told to George Grim, “I Had to Go Back”, [Minneapolis, Minn.]: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, page 18, column 2:

     At Lae, when the plane door opened, the bakeoven heat of the tropics hit me.

   • 1978, Herman Wouk, chapter 34, in War and Remembrance, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361:

     Siena in the summer was a bakeoven, and he took heat badly, his disposition becoming as rough and sore as the rashes that mottled him horn head to toe.

   • 1985, Walker A. Tompkins, “Crossbow Killer’s Warning”, in Death Valley QTH (Tommy Rockford), Newington, Conn.: American Radio Relay League, →ISBN, page 13:

     But I can’t understand why you radio hams would choose a bakeoven like Death Valley for your weekend gig.

   • 1988, L. Christian Balling, Champion, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     Marshal shivered slightly in response to the icy brush of unaccustomed fear, a momentary chill that quickly suffocated in the bakeoven heat.

   • 1995, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 167:

     “I say he’s a murdering cutthroat,” fanfares the ostrich-plumed young champion of slavery for the benefit of the pre-lunch throng congregating in the bakeoven air outside Morrison’s Cafe & Groggery.

   • 2010, Ken Matesz, Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun, White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 125, column 2:

     A cookstove/bakeoven combination in which the oven is a masonry combustion chamber. […] Bakeoven chambers are generally popular options for a masonry heater. […] There are, of course, masonry bakeovens that double as primary heaters.

   • 2014, Allen G. Noble, Vernacular Buildings: A Global Survey, London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN:

     Where fire danger was minimal, such as in the dry-climate pueblos of New Mexico, individual bakeovens predominated. […] In stone or brick summer kitchens, the privy in many cases will be seen snuggling up to the bakeoven to gain warmth in the winter season (Figure 21-3).