In Russia: a large stove, traditionally incorporating a low platform where a number of people could sit or lie, as formerly typical of peasant houses.

(See quot. 1688) Obsolete.

(originally) a fireplace or grate used for cooking; (now spec.) a large cooking stove with burners or hotplates and one or more ovens, all of which…

A similar kind of stove for heating an apartment, building, etc. Also: the metal body or fire chamber of such a stove.

a kind of stove (see quotation).

North American. Franklin stove, a kind of iron fireplace invented by Franklin; also, a free-standing stove for heating a room. Also elliptical.

A stove in a kitchen, used for cooking and heating; a cooker.

a stove in which the combustion of gas is used as a source of heat.

Name of a small kind of stove.

a stove automatically regulated by means of a thermometer.

Used as the distinctive name of a special make of household stove.

= airtight stove n. at airtight, adj. adv.compounds.

(see quot. 1858).

A base-burning stove. Frequently attributive.

a stove adapted for burning wood (Knight 1875).

As a modifier, with the sense ‘of the nature of or resembling a box, esp. in having a square, rectangular, or cuboid shape’, as in box bag, box fan…

(With capital initial.) A proprietary name for a type of solid-fuel-burning stove.

(a) a locomotive that is fuelled with wood; (b) a wood-burning stove or fire.

a solid-fuel, domestic heating stove with a tall, cylindrical firebox.

Designating a kind of domestic stove made in the shape of a barrel. Cf. pot-bellied, adj. 1.

cosy corner, an upholstered seat which fits into a corner of a room; such a corner, cosily furnished; also attributive and figurative; cosy stove…