Stove

noun
1.
a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
2.
a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.
verb (used with object), stoved, stoving.
3.
to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
verb
1.
a simple past tense and past participle of stave.
noun
1.
one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
2.
a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
3.
a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
4.
Prosody.

a verse or stanza of a poem or song.
the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.

5.
Music. staff1 (def 10).
verb (used with object), staved or stove, staving.
6.
to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
7.
to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
8.
to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in).
9.
to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
10.
to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
11.
to furnish with a stave or staves.
12.
to beat with a stave or staff.
verb (used without object), staved or stove, staving.
13.
to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
14.
to move along rapidly.
Verb phrases
15.
stave off,

to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion.
to prevent in time; forestall:
He wasn’t able to stave off bankruptcy.

noun
1.
another word for cooker (sense 1)
2.
any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
verb (transitive)
3.
to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
4.
(Scot) to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
verb
1.
a past tense and past participle of stave
noun
1.
any one of a number of long strips of wood joined together to form a barrel, bucket, boat hull, etc
2.
any of various bars, slats, or rods, usually of wood, such as a rung of a ladder or a crosspiece bracing the legs of a chair
3.
any stick, staff, etc
4.
a stanza or verse of a poem
5.
(music)

(Brit) an individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation
another word for staff1 (sense 9)

verb staves, staving, staved, stove
6.
(often foll by in) to break or crush (the staves of a boat, barrel, etc) or (of the staves of a boat) to be broken or crushed
7.
(transitive) usually foll by in. to burst or force (a hole in something)
8.
(transitive) to provide (a ladder, chair, etc) with a stave or staves
9.
(transitive) (Scot) to sprain (a finger, toe, etc)
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