stave : Idioms & Phrases

Air" stove`

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1. A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

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• (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

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• noun a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
  cooking stove; stove; range; kitchen range.
  
  • dinner was already on the stove

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• a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, used for cooking.

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• a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C.

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• a small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• noun a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas
  gas range; gas cooker.
  

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• a stove for cooking or other purposes, heated by gas.

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• a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

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• noun a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
  cooking stove; stove; range; kitchen range.
  
  • dinner was already on the stove

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• a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.

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• noun a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned
  potbelly.
  

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• noun a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers
  Primus.
  

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• noun a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol
  

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• verb break in the staves (of)
  
  • stave in a cask
• verb burst or force (a hole) into something
  stave.
  

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• a machine for dressing the edges of staves.

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• verb prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
  avert; debar; avoid; deflect; obviate; head off; forefend; fend off; ward off; forfend.
  
  • Let's avoid a confrontation
  • head off a confrontation
  • avert a strike

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• noun large tree of Australasia
  silky elm; booyong; brown oak; red beech; Terrietia trifoliolata; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata.
  

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• noun a small machine bolt
  

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• noun fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
  poker; fire hook; salamander.
  

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• . See Bark stove, under Bark.

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• in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.

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• a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. U.S.

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