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ovenn. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with (with variation in the medial consonant) Old Frisian oven, Middle Dutch oven (Dutch oven), Old Saxon oban (Middle Low German ōven), Old High German ovan (Middle High German oven, German Ofen), Old Icelandic ofn, ogn, Old Swedish oghn, ughn, ofn (Swedish ugn), early modern Danish ogn (Danish ovn), Gothic auhns; further etymology uncertain and disputed (and it is further disputed by some that all of the Germanic forms are of the same origin): perhaps ultimately related to the Indo-European base of Sanskrit ukhā earthenware cooking pot, early classical Latin aulla, aula pot, urn, and perhaps also or alternatively to that of ancient Greek ἰπνός oven, furnace, although this presents phonological difficulties.The forms novon , nowne show metanalysis (see N n.). With sense 2c compare similar euphemistic use of classical Latin olla olla n. society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iv. xi. 288 Eal þæt se ofn þære singalan costunge asude. OE (Northumbrian) xiii. 42 Mittent eos in caminum ignis : sendas hia..in ofn fyres. OE (Julius) 3 May 76 Þa het he sendan hi ealle ðry on byrnendene ofn. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 73 Eremite ne owh on wilderne te wunien, bute he arst bie ȝefanded ðurh regule and ðurh maistre in ðan gastliche ofne ðe we ær embe spaken. c1390 in C. Horstmann (1892) i. 152 In to the houene the child he caste. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 2926 Als it war a brinand ouen [a1400 Gött. ouin]. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 265 (MED) Wiþ greet clennes of soule, þei seyden her massis, al forbrennyd in þe ouene of charite. c1429 (1986) l. 3071 The aungelle sent into the oven to confort the childere fortolde Figured þat to confort the faders Crist entre into helle wolde. c1480 (a1400) St. Eugenia 860 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 149 [Men] put hyr in ane oyne brinande. 1535 Song Three Children 22 The kynges seruauntes..ceassed not to make the ouen hote with wylde fyre, drye strawe, pitch & fagottes. 1590 E. Spenser i. xi. sig. L2v [The Dragon] from his wide deuouring ouen sent A flake of fire. 1642 J. Eaton 128 The three Children of Israel cast into the hot fierie Oven. 1722 W. Sewel (1795) I. 52 The day of the Lord is coming that shall burn as an oven. 1797 M. Robinson II. xlv. 318 You will be red by the great oven of Belzebub. 1851 G. Croly 58 Behold! the day cometh..When the oven, unkindled By mortal, shall burn, And, like chaff, thou shalt glow In that furnace of woe. 1886 H. S. Sutton 47 His weeds, however gay, at last Themselves into the oven cast. 2. spec.the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven OE (Claud.) viii. 3 Froxas..astygaþ..to þinum bedde..& on þine ofnas. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxvii. 252 Ealle þa wif, þe þy ærran dæge bocon þa hlafas in ðam ofne. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 993 Bulltedd bræd..bakenn wass inn ofne. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in (1906) 19* Frussez tiel payn qe vient de fuur, Breke the lof that comith of oue. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 112 (MED) The peper groweth..as doth a wylde vyne..& þan men kytten hem..&..putten it vpon an owven [Fr. vne four], & þere it waxeth blak & crisp. c1450 in T. Austin (1888) 73 Put hem into a Nowne til þei be a litull hard. 1486 sig. bviij (MED) Take a whyte looff of brede sumwhat colder then it commyth owt of the oouen. 1513 in J. B. Paul (1902) IV. 488 To the baxtaris of the greit schip for clay to make an une in the greit schip. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 197 Rosted or stewed in an ouen. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xlv. 363 Had careit hame heather to the oyne, Cutted off in the cruik of the moone. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon 314 Bread..which is baked in an oven, thorowly heated. 1660 T. Rugge Jrnl. in B. Cusack (1998) 171 Which[e] pot was put into the ouen the heet of the ouen warm[ed] the watter. 1691 J. Wilson v. iii. 60 And a Mouth, like any Baker's Oven. 1766 J. Wesley 17 July I preached..in a house as warm as an oven. 1823 W. Scott I. ii. 50 I will make better confections than ever cam out of his o'on. 1828 L. E. Ude (1978) 396 You cover the whole with some apricot marmalade, and put them again into the oven to finish. 1859 E. Waugh 53 There's some nice bacon-collops o'th hob, An' a quart o' ale posset i'th oon. 1892 14 The bake house is..provided with four excellent ovens and all the latest and best improved machinery. 1920 Aug. 10/4 Bake twenty to thirty minutes..in a moderate oven. 1949 E. Goudge i. vi. 105 A little apple pasty that the cook had given him, hot out of the oven. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat 11 The flat naan bread of northern India is cooked..on the interior walls of clay ovens. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 292 Me ne chide wit þe gidie Ne wit þan ofne me ne ȝonie. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in (1897) 12 6 (MED) For men sayn in scorn, that as mytch as a mylne worthe that gryndyth not as an oven that baketh not. a1500 (Trin. Cambr.) 4453 (MED) The hole perceyuinge..well gan it to note That thys huge Geant ther had made entring..in-warde gan behold..No thyng he saw more then in a ouen he. 1546 J. Heywood ii. vii. sig. K No man wyll an other in the ouen seeke, Except that hym selfe haue been there before. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. 225/2 A man ought not to chide with a foole, nor gape over an oven. 1596 T. Nashe sig. V Of the Good-wife..finding her daughter in the ouen, where she would neuer haue sought her, if she had not been there first her selfe. a1677 I. Barrow (1686) III. 394 To gape against an oven, to blow against the wind, to kick against the pricks. [So Du. tegen een ovengapen.] 1781 T. Holcroft ii. i. 21 I can zee an owl in an oven as soon as another. 1837 S. Lover (1838) i. iv If they ketch me my bread's baked without an oven. 1854 A. E. Baker II. 83 The old woman would never have looked in the oven for her daughter, if she had not been there herself. 1856 C. Reade I. xiv. 237 It is no use now I've been and gone into the same oven like a fool. 1974 P. Wright xiv. 129 ‘It's like stopping an oven with butter’ (of a useless effort). the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb ?1510 Mayd Emlyn in W. C. Hazlitt (1866) IV. 86 In her ouen At any maner of season, That he sholde bake, There is rome ynowe, For other and for you, and space to set a cake. c1626 (1955) 30 Why, having one man, did she cry out for more? Oh, or Spanish ovens are not heated wth one Bavyn. 1719 in T. D'Urfey IV. 117 A Lord, a Knight, a Gentleman, Is welcome to my Oven. 1962 ‘B. Graeme’ ii. 19 Good lord! You mean there's something in the oven? 1976 ‘D. Fletcher’ v. 143 She's in the club, you know. Got one in the oven, eh? 2000 Z. Smith (2001) i. 17 It seemed impossible..what with a young wife with one in the oven (an hysterical, fictional pregnancy, as it turned out). the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] 1593 T. Nashe f. 63 Damme vp the Ouen of your vttrance, make not such a bigge sound with your empty vessels. 1823 J. F. Cooper I. xvii. 249 Shut your oven, you crow! 1838 W. G. Simms II. xviii. 192 I'll stand up for you; but by the Hokey, old black, you must keep your oven close. 1881 A. Trumble 25/2 Oven, a large mouth. the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > small > at ground level 1835 J. H. Ingraham I. ii. xiv. 154 The cemetery exhibits three stories of oven-like tombs, constructed in the wall.] 1851 E. S. Wortley I. xxi. 237 The graves are also elevated. The dead are buried in sepulchral houses, which are termed here ‘ovens’. 1879 (new ed.) IV. 267/2 Owing to the damp nature of the ground..there are no graves in the cemeteries, the coffins with the dead being deposited in tombs or ‘ovens’ erected above the soil. 1893 Feb. 374/1 The tombs are houses built upon the ground, and provided with cubby-hole or drawerlike compartments, to be sealed with a marble slab as each coffin is put in place. The term ‘oven tombs’ describes them well. 1921 Aug. 511/1 There was no system in the arrangement of the ‘ovens’. 1997 R. Raburn 153 Above ground burials, necessitated by shallow water tables, took place in family tombs or the long rows of ‘oven’ vaults that often line the walls. society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > [noun] > small a1225 (c1200) (1888) 73 (MED) Ðu scalt bien ȝefonded on ða hali liue al swo is þe pott ðe is idon on ðe barnende ofne. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 310v Þough cerusa y-tosted in an ouene torne in to sandaricha. 1535 2 Sam. xii. 31 He broughte them forth..and burned them in tyle ouens. 1576 G. Pettie 68 Like as the potters clay beeing once hardened in the Ouen, will not bee made soft again. 1632 W. Lithgow ix. 380 Two sundry Ouens drawne, beeing full of young Chickens,..not hatched by their mothers, but in the Fernace. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 1197 It comes to a thick granulated whitish substance, which is afterwards reduced to a calx in an Oven. 1753 Suppl. Oven, or Assaying Oven, in metallurgy, is the particular sort of furnace, used by the assayers in their operations on metals. 1822 J. K. Paulding vii. 45 An oven to fumigate clothes, which are taken from the prisoners. 1858 A. S. Piggot 102 For this purpose, I am in the habit of employing an air oven, attached to my stove. 1875 17 A china oven..is built of fire bricks. 1936 26 259 Two small oval pottery-kilns of updraught type, traces of another and a drying-oven were excavated. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser (ed. 2) v. 82 In many instances, surgical instruments could be sterilized with either the autoclave, the hot air oven, the gas sterilizer, or by gamma radiation. 1991 Spring 26 Even the annealing oven, which cools and flattens the glass is manually operated. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > great or intense heat > places of ?1796 R. B. Sheridan (1966) II. 49 How glad I am that you are not in this vile burning oven where every one is dead or dying. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ xliii. 453 Twelve or thirteen hours in the saddle, even in..a Christian climate..is a tiresome journey; but in an oven like Syria,..on a horse that is tired and lame..—it is a journey to be remembered in bitterness of spirit. 1890 A. Conan Doyle vii. 132 He..must be sunburned after serving his time in such an oven as the Andamans. 1920 E. O'Neill ii. i. 122 If you think it's fun sweltering in this oven of a kitchen to keep things warm for you, you're mistaken. 1966 ‘A. Hall’ vii. 69 The Toyota had become an oven—I couldn't always park in the shade. 1996 31 Mar. 23/1 In the summer it's an oven, because it's built of concrete and there's no air-conditioning. the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > furnace or oven 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ (1953) 54 Was it true about the German gas ovens in Poland? 1962 M. Procter xxi. 158 The two incinerators, invariably called ovens by local undertakers. 1967 C. Potok xiii. 228 Where else [but Palestine] could the remnant of Jewry that had escaped Hitler's ovens go? 1988 C. Ozick Primo Levi's Suicide Note in (1989) 43 One is stunned by this paroxysm of perfidy and hatred: it must be the Jews who put the Jews into the ovens. Compounds C1. a. 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee iii. i. 23 You Oven-Bats, you things so far from Souls, Like Dogs, you're out of Providence's reach. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > oven-rake, -broom, or -mop 1611 R. Cotgrave Fourgon, an Ouen-forke..wherewith fuell is both put into an Ouen, and stirred when it is (on fire) in it. 1832 T. Carlyle in Aug. 21 The huge printed reams rustle in the flames, are stirred up with oven-forks. 1985 38 498 It cannot be accidental that this Heugabel is identical to the Ofengabeln, or oven-forks, that appear in three of the earlier Hexenbilder. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 670 Hoc furnium, ovenhouse. 1518 in J. B. Paul (1903) V. 148 To Schaw, the Kingis mastir kuk, for j owynhous biggit in the castell. 1892 23 281 The village bakery was a place of much resort, and the baker's oven, sometimes called an ovenhouse.., a landmark. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 263 An Owen maker or keper, clibanarius. 1849 29 Dec. 1235/2 People used to say as he passed by, ‘There goes the oven-keeper, the sultan's host.’ 1968 73 1046 The extreme Left had, nonetheless, a fairly solid economic base centered in some butchers, ovenkeepers, merchants, industrialists, and enterprising artisans. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 263 An Owen maker or keper, clibanarius. 1854 Census Great Brit. 1851: Population Tables II Table 53. p. cxxv, in LXXXVIII. 1 Oven-maker. 1912 20 975 There was an equal rush of extensions of the law to industries of all kinds—the aerated water makers.., the maltsters and the ovenmakers, the stonecutters and the workers in wicker. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > oven-rake, -broom, or -mop OE (1955) 47 Rotabulum, myxforca uel ofenraca. c1400 (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 32 Le pistour tient le Rastel, þe bakere holdyþ þe ouen Rake. 1580 C. Hollyband Vn fourgon, a makon, an Ouen rake. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with ovens or furnaces 1611 R. Cotgrave Fourgonneur, an Ouen-tender, or Ouen-stirrer. (Harl. 221) 323 Malkyne, mappyl, or oven swepare [v.r. ouen swepe], Dossorium, tersorium. 1580 C. Hollyband Escouillon, an Ouen sweeper. b. 1922 E. Blunden 30 The night drooped oven-hot. 1962 J. Fleming xix. 207 Oven-hot rolls, ice-cold Jaffa juice, fragrant hot coffee. 2000 14 Aug. i. 16/1 Oven-hot blasts of the ‘shergi’ wind..have driven those without air-conditioning to seek respite in the new supermarket on the Casablanca road. C2. 1938 Jan. 55/4 (advt.) Heinz oven-bakes four delicious kinds [of beans]. 1998 Feb. 28/4 Ready prepared frozen foods can be oven baked, boiled in a bag or microwaved. 1899 S. N. Patten v. 280 The use of porridge, soup, and soft foods became a mark of inferiority, and every one sought to make the change to bread and other oven-baked food. 1902 4 162/2 The name ‘bricquetage’ is given to masses of oven-baked clay found in heaps in the region of Vic and elsewhere. 1987 E. Ronay 145 Fish lovers will find oven-baked trout on the bar menu. OE (1955) 91 Formentum, ofenbacen hlaf. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) xxxiv. 80 Genim..ðone cruman of ofenbacenum hlafe. 1849 W. E. Aytoun Scheik of Sinai in 274 The dark defile is blazing Like a heated oven-blast. 1992 A. Desmond & J. R. Moore 178 On 20 January—after suffering 120° temperatures and oven blast winds—he arrived at Bathhurst, a troop station on the Macquarie River. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > baked > oven-baked > baked at oven bottom 1917 27 Feb. 3/1 No bread shall be..exposed for sale except in the shape either of a one-piece oven bottom loaf or a tin loaf. 1956 G. Mann 185 A piece of dough was always reserved for Leather Cake, or Oven Bottom Cake. The name Oven Bottom Cake naturally came from the fact that the cake was baked on the bottom of the oven where the heat was. 1967 ‘S. Woods’ 74 [She] did her own baking and ate oven-bottom cake and treacle every day for tea. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > baked > oven-baked > baked at oven bottom 1959 9 Mar. (Britain's Food Suppl.) p. xii/5 Many..in the over-40 age group..look back with nostalgia to the crusty oven-bottomed bread of their youth. 1994 C. Cookson (1995) i. iv. 116 Jinnie had mashed the tea and buttered a generous slice of oven-bottomed bread. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > bread baked in specific way 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus ii. 45 Neither shall you finde many in Hea which eate ouen-bread. 1992 Aug. 90/1 The oven bread is a hit in other communities as well, the attraction being the traditional method of baking in an outdoor, clay, beehive oven. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Furnariidae (oven-bird) 1839 2 238/2 John Walker, of Allen street, Surrey, Oven-builder. 1869 V. Penny 14 Tip Kepl was the first oven-builder, though Adam has the merit of having been the first baker and cook. 1885 C. Swainson 32 British long-tailed titmouse... Oven bird or oven builder (Stirling). 1927–9 H. Wheeler V. 3069/1 A South-American tree-creeper (Furnaria rufa), which builds an oven-shaped nest of mud or clay, is called the oven-bird (n.) or oven-builder (n.). 1997 Sept. 27/1 (advt.) We used the know-how we have collected over fifty years as oven builders. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake baked in oven c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 446 And he can weell waytyn on an oven cake. 1773 R. Graves II. vii. ii. 111 He might have offered us a bit of his oven-cake. 2002 (Nexis) 17 July Tried-and-true (though not necessarily nutritious) recipes such as..Easy Bake Oven Cake. 1988 Apr. 169/2 The highest was 312 Calories for one brand of oven chip. 2000 20 Mar. 12/1 ‘My girlfirend makes a blinding fishfingers, chips and peas—with oven chips,’ he grins. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oven glove c1909 D. H. Lawrence (1934) ii. 38 Ernest (rising and going to the oven, picking up the oven-cloth from the hearth). 1957 J. Kirkup ii. 44 Whenever she opened the oven door she used an ‘oven-cloth’. 1991 W. J. Burley (BNC) 170 He went to her house and knocked on the green door. It was answered by Emily herself, an oven cloth in her hand. society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coke > produced in a specific way 1853 A. de Bergevin 6 That description of coke..known as oven coke. 1876 J. Thomas 128/2 Coke. the charcoal obtained by heating bituminous coal with the imperfect access of air, or by its distillation. The former is usually called oven coke, and the latter gas coke, being abundantly produced in gas-works. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > cook in specific vessel 1953 639/1 Compounds like oven-cook (verb)..also occurred. 1974 7 Mar. 13/7 If your frying pan is on the small side, there's no reason why you should not oven-cook the chicken halves. 1913 New Ser. 7 Mar. 381/1 Oven-dry wood was used; this was sealed in glass to prevent premature wetting. 2001 Oct. 210/1 The fuel moisture level is factored into an index that includes weather conditions, wind speeds, fuel loads (the total oven-dry weight, per acre, of all the fuels in the area), and drought conditions. 1928 30 Mar. 11/6 Oven-fresh biscuits. Delicately flavoured and temptingly delicious. 1948 June 115/3 (advt.) Planters are always oven-fresh, because they're vacuum-packed. 1981 W. Safire in 5 July 6/2 But what, in describing bakery items, does oven-fresh tell us? Did it really come fresh from the oven—or did it come in a truck from the bakery? the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > ovenware 1920 11 Oct. 11/7 Meat cooked in Oven Glass becomes more tender than that cooked in a tin. 1961 12 June 6/7 Phoenix oven glass..[is] one of the reliable heat-proof glasses. 1997 12 May 52 One such promotional giveaway was Fire King jade-colored restaurantware. It was hefty and made of oven glass, which meant that it could hold hot liquids. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oven glove 1942 26 Sept. 1/2 (advt.) Oven gloves, 2s. Money with order. 1976 26 Nov. 9/2 Oven gloves..make very welcome gifts. 1999 J. Burchill xiii. 204 I carried the casserole to the table in my oven gloves. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with ovens or furnaces 1832 G. R. Porter 63 The oven-man places trial pieces in different parts of the oven. 1908 24 Mar. 9/3 The potters and ovenmen of Staffordshire, whose notices to cease work expired to-morrow, agreed last night to submit their demands to a Conciliation Board. 1990 8 Sept. 5/4 What was your first job? As assistant oven man at a NAAFI bakery for 75p a week. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oven glove 1946 27 Oct. 63 (advt.) Pair of oven mitts. 1969 10 Feb. 9/4 Trendy gifts like oven mits. 1997 10 July iv. 10 He plays first base like he's wearing oven mitts. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of c1300 Jewish Boy in (1923) 38 314 (MED) Þat child amidde he caste & dutte þe ouenes mouþ.] c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iii. 3447 (MED) His colour was semblable..Vn-to þe fery, hote, brennynge glede, Whos eyen eke, flawmynge also rede As þe blase of an oven mouthe. 1593 G. Harvey 147 To stoppe thy Ouen-mouth with a lidde of Butter. 1826 J. H. Reynolds & T. Hood (ed. 3) 64 Thy oven-mouth, that swallow'd pies. 1997 18 May (Review Suppl.) 56/4 The cooks..start feeding the hungry oven mouth, sliding in the flatbreads with skilful movements of the wooden paddle or peel. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > baker's shovel 1603 M. Pring in S. Purchas (1625) IV. viii. xii. 1655 Their Oares were flat at the end like an Ouen peele, made of Ash or Maple very light and strong, about two yards long, wherewith they row very swiftly. 1877 R. H. Major ii. 17 Brites d'Almeida, the baker's wife, slew with her oven-peel no less than seven Castilian soldiers. 1992 C. Hardyment vi. 89 The ashes were swept off the oven floor and the loaves of bread slid in with a long-handle flat-bladed wooden instrument known as an oven peel. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > [adjective] > preprocessed 1954 10 Apr. 1/5 (advt.) Turkeys direct from farm. Dressed, trussed, oven ready. 1962 22 Mar. 510/1 Cornflakes and frozen fish-fingers, oven-ready chickens, and wrapped, sliced bread. 2000 Dec. 155/3 An oven-ready server designed to suit small office networks. 1822 (Royal Soc.) 112 236 Oven-shaped cavity, which has been produced artificially by extracting bones and skulls from the osseous breccia. 1865 C. Kingsley I. ii. 85 Within the old oven-shaped Pict's house. 1989 M. Gimbutas iii. xviii. 200 The Sardinian variant of the stiff nude is known from oven-shaped tombs of the Neolithic Bonu Ighinu culture. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus major (great tit) a1825 R. Forby (1830) Oven's nest, the nest of that very pretty bird [the oven-bird]. It is otherwise..called a pudding-poke's nest. 1885 C. Swainson 32 British long-tailed titmouse... Oven's nest (Northants). the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > stone closing mouth of society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone for other specific building use 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife iii. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt (1874) IX. 54 Bid the cook take down the oven-stone, [lest] the pies be burned. 1836 J. Murray 251/2 The cave-like excavations of Bell, whence oven-stone (pierre au four) is obtained. 1994 4 Aug. 332/1 Without any volcanic stone as raw material, they learned to fashion adzes from giant clam shells, ovenstones from limestones cobbles and fishhooks from inferior local pearlshell. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > oven timer 1961 Oct. 250/1 One cooker..had an automatic oven timer. This, like the ringers had a clockwork mechanism, which turned the oven on and off after a pre-set time. 1986 6 Apr. 55/3 Quick cooking..frees you from the oven timer. 1885 C. Swainson 26 Willow warbler... Oven bird (Norfolk). Oven tit (ditto). the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [adjective] > ovenware 1952 18 Apr. 5/6 (advt.) Pyrex... The genuine original oven-to-table glass. 1977 125 215/2 A wide range of ceramic items from the early beginnings to the latest oven-to-table ware. 1993–4 Winter 55 (advt.) All the ceramics are oven-to-table quality, as well as dishwasher, microwave, and freezer safe. society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > for specific miscellaneous purposes 1794 W. Cowper 12 Oaks..that had once a head But now wear crests of oven-wood instead. 1846 J. F. Cooper II. ix. 129 The cook may have it for oven-wood, any day in the week. 1900 May 785 He sold the stuff for kindling fuel and for oven wood. Derivatives 1728 E. Chambers at Cul Cul de Four, a sort of low, spherical Vault, Oven-like. 1833 C. Darwin 17 Sept. (1988) 189 The Toldos or oven like huts of Indians. 1962 (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 4) 105 Kiln, an oven-like chamber used to bake, harden, or dry an object. 2001 Oct. 206/3 It was hot on the ridgetop, but it was going to be ovenlike at the bottom of the valley. the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > others spec. the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically > spheroidally > specific c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio II. xv. 29 The great rooms are arch'd with a Fascia, the square ones oven-wise. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio II. xiv. 24 Their arches round, or oven-wise. 1994 (Nexis) 27 Nov. 19 Our idea of barbecue ribs means cooked over a fire, not boiled then heated ovenwise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ovenv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: oven n. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as in specific place 1596 T. Nashe sig. X2 One angle or corner..to hide him in..& brickil & ouen vp his stinking breath. 1864 5 100/1 The earth's own temperature, not now radiated into the celestial spaces, is shut in—it is ovened, or muffled up. 1977 ‘J. Gash’ xv. 186 Above me the cottage was roaring like a furnace. And I was entombed. Ovened. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > cook in specific vessel the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > bake > bake in oven 1688 R. Holme iii. 293/2 A Jannock..is Ovened very soft. 1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown 65 The first I bought..Was o'ened and buttered weell. 1996 Nov. 22/1 Haws can be lovingly ovened in pies, tarts and strudels. 1999 J. Lloyd & E. Rees iii. 82 Something I can chuck in the fridge, then oven it when Amy arrives and make out what a great cook..I am. Derivatives 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. in The eddish is very ovend. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey 214/1 Ovenned/Ovened.., shrivelled up... This is a word used not only of the results of over-cooking; but also of apples or potatoes, for example, which have been stored for too long and have become wrinkled. 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