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Definition of Stoves
1. stove [n] - See also: stove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoves
Literary usage of Stoves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1882)
"Gentlemen,—Your Committee on stoves and Furnaces respectfully submit their ...
Below will be found the number of stoves, furnaces and steam-boilers now in ..."
2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The stoves, of which there are nearly always four to a furnace, ... The first
stoves used were constructed -of iron pipes enclosed in a brick structure ..."
3. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"stoves are said to have been cast for the first time in Alsace, France, in 1490,
... Between 1752 and 1768 stoves of the box-stove order were made at ..."
4. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The stoves, of which there are nearly always four to a furnace, ... The first
stoves used were constructed of iron pipes enclosed in a brick structure ..."
5. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"But with a vast variety of stoves made of cast and sheet iron, ... Count Rumford
also applied the same principle to stoves, and adapted them for burning ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It was for an alleged improvement in coal stoves, of the class known as "cannon" or
... The patentees in their specification allege that such stoves have ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1880)
"This patent provided for heating the stoves by a separate fireplace, ...
The combustion-chamber of these stoves was central, and openings were provided at ..."
8. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"stoves 26. Formerly a cold blast was used in furnaces, but considerable extra
... The blast is heated in so-called stoves by means of the waste gases of the ..."
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