Definition of cookstove
: a stove for cooking
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Examples of cookstove in a Sentence
a small cookstove that would be appropriate for an apartment
Recent Examples of cookstove from the Web
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Even better cookstoves may not do much to improve health.
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Black carbon like that from dirty cookstoves is thought to be the third most important cause of climate change after carbon dioxide and methane.
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Grandma was cooking with kerosene on that cookstove on Dec. 18, 1949, when a gust of wind exploded through that wood house at 603 W. Farrall and blew the fiery oil all over the walls.
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Prepare an 1860s breakfast working at the open hearth or cookstove.
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Two of the awards the EPA's leadership rescinded - $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to thenonprofit organization Winrock International - supported the deployment of clean cookstoves in the developing world.
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Two of the awards the EPA’s leadership rescinded — $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to the nonprofit organization Winrock International — supported the deployment of clean cookstoves in the developing world.
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Good Time Stove Company Purchase a piece of history from this retailer, which stocks genuine nineteenth- and early twentieth-century parlor stoves and cookstoves restored to their original condition.
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Cleaner and more efficient energy sources can be part of the solution: A report in 2015 found that switching to solar lanterns and clean cookstoves could save more than $300 million a year in fuel costs at refugee camps.
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First Known Use of cookstove
1824
cookstove Synonyms
Related Words
broiler, fryer (also frier), microwave, microwave oven, oven, roaster, rotisserie, stove, toaster, toaster oven;
COOKSTOVE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of cookstove for English Language Learners
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: a usually old-fashioned stove that burns wood and can be used for cooking; also : a small stove that is used to cook food outdoors
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