Definitions for stove

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stove stove

Spelling: [stohv]

IPA: /stoʊv/

Stove is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in stove (eostv).

Definitions for stove

noun

1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.
3. one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
4. a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
5. a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
6. Prosody. a verse or stanza of a poem or song. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.
7. Music. staff1 (def 10).

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of stave.

Verb phrases

1. stave off, to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion. to prevent in time; forestall:

verb (used with object)

1. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
2. to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
3. to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
4. to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in).
5. to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
6. to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
7. to furnish with a stave or staves.
8. to beat with a stave or staff.

verb (used without object)

1. to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
2. to move along rapidly.

Origin of stove

1425-75; (noun) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, cognate with Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba (G

Examples for stove

When it is cold, the dog finds a spot in front of the stove.

I was stuck between the sink and the stove, which I thought was fantastic!

There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.

(b) How should they be adjusted for cooking on top of the stove?

He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.

It was almost as large as the front room, with a stove, a refrigerator, a good-sized table and, in one corner, another double bed.

Putin, with his comments Friday, just moved it to the front of the stove.

The daily newspaper lay by the stove, with the corner torn accusingly.

Remove from the stove, allow them to cool, and serve with cream.

At last he went towards the bench behind the stove, and put them down on it.