COOKSTOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cookstove mean? 

• COOKSTOVE (noun)
  The noun COOKSTOVE has 1 sense:

1. a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)

  Familiarity information: COOKSTOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOKSTOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cookstove" is a kind of...):

cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove (a kitchen appliance used for cooking food)

Meronyms (parts of "cookstove"):

water back (water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove)

 Context examples 

There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)