I. stove¹ /stəʊv $ stoʊv/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Middle Dutch; Origin: Middle Low German, 'heated room', from Vulgar Latin extufa, from Greek typhein 'to smoke']

1. a piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an oven Synonym : cooker British English
on the stove
a pot of soup simmering on the stove

2. a thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas:
a wood-burning stove

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II. stove²
a past tense and past participle of stave²

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