cookstove

English

Etymology

From cook +‎ stove.

Noun

cookstove (plural cookstoves)

1. A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

   Synonym: cooker (in one of its senses)

   Hypernyms: stove, < appliance

   Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe

   Coordinate terms: cooktop, hotplate

   • 1923, Fannie Georgia Stroup, “The House of Death”, in Weird Tales, volume 1, number 1, page 160:

     "Sarah Ann Collins, we're goin' right downstairs and stick this letter in that cookstove, quick!"

   • 1943, Sinclair Lewis, chapter VI, in Gideon Planish, London: Jonathan Cape, page 53:

     Teckla's father, the banker and trustee, owned a one-room cottage with a cook-stove and a two-story bunk, six miles out of town, on Lake Elizabeth, to be reached by a sandy trail, on foot or with horse and buggy.

   • 1961, Irving Stone, chapter 5, in The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, page 294:

     The manners of the people were execrable: they ate in the streets, even the well-dressed wives emerging from bakery shops to walk along munching on fresh sugar rolls, chewing pieces of hot tripe and other specialties from the vendors' carts and street cookstoves, consuming dinner piecemeal in public.

   • 2009 January 27, Henry Fountain, “Study Pinpoints the Main Source of Asia’s Brown Cloud”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The findings suggest that controls on agricultural burning and improvements in cookstove technology to allow for more complete combustion could make as much of a difference, if not more, in lightening the skies over South Asia as efforts to restrict cars or build cleaner-burning power plants.

Related terms

• cookbook
• cookery
• cookpot
• oilstove
• woodstove

 

Translations

a stove used for cooking

• Czech: sporák (cs) m
• German: Sparherd m
• Hungarian: tűzhely (hu), sparhelt (hu)
• Spanish: cocina económica

Further reading

• kitchen stove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia