cookstove
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Definition of cookstove
: a stove for cooking
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The alliance pledged to help engineer the distribution of 100 million cookstoves, small-scale appliances designed to cut fuel use and toxic emissions in impoverished households worldwide by 2020. — Sara Morrison, USA TODAY, "In developing world, an expensive push to reduce cooking fire deaths falls short," 13 July 2018 Even better cookstoves may not do much to improve health. — The Economist, "Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard," 5 Apr. 2018 Black carbon like that from dirty cookstoves is thought to be the third most important cause of climate change after carbon dioxide and methane. — The Economist, "Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard," 5 Apr. 2018 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. — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, "The Christmas Gregg Doyel learned the truth about his Grandma," 20 Dec. 2017 Prepare an 1860s breakfast working at the open hearth or cookstove. — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Food and drink events," 10 Oct. 2017 Two of the awards the EPA's leadership rescinded - $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to thenonprofit organization Winrock International - supported the deployment of clean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. — Juliet Eilperin, chicagotribune.com, "Ex-Trump campaign aide with little environmental policy experience makes final call on EPA’s grants," 4 Sep. 2017 Two of the awards the EPA’s leadership rescinded — $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to the nonprofit organization Winrock International — supported the deployment of clean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. — Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, "EPA now requires political aide’s sign-off for agency awards, grant applications," 4 Sep. 2017 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. — John Loecke, ELLE Decor, "2004 Home Magazine 100 Plus Secret Sources," 5 July 2012These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cookstove.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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cookstove
noun
English Language Learners Definition of cookstove
: 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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