stove

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a kitchen appliance used for cooking food

   dinner was already on the stove

2. 2
   noun

   A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

   1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.

3. 3
   noun

   A hothouse (heated greenhouse).

   There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.

4. 4
   noun

   A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

   April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

5. 5
   verb

   To heat or dry, as in a stove.

   to stove feathers

6. 6
   verb

   To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

   to stove orange trees

7. 7
   verb

   To jam; to sprain.

   to stove a finger

8. 8
   verb

   simple past and past participle of stave

   [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”…