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Definition of Dutch oven

1. Noun. An oven consisting of a metal box for cooking in front of a fire.

Definition of Dutch oven

1. Noun. a large metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid ¹

2. Noun. a portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire ¹

3. Noun. (rail transport) a protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler. Particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground (cite web url= Couplers author="Tubeprune" title=Coupling, Handing and UNDMs - Automatic Couplers accessdate=2006-11-12) ¹

4. Noun. a prank in which one farts in bed and pulls the bedclothes over one's bed-mate's head ¹

5. Noun. a room full of marijuana smoke ¹

6. Noun. the very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana. This usage of the term is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.Ferraro, Chris. ''Marijuana and College Culture'', pg. 19 ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Dutch oven

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Under the Sky in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1913)
"THE Dutch oven As Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep, so do we bless the genius who first thought of the Dutch oven. ..."

2. Outing (1893)
"Fact is I have felt as though we had lived in a Dutch oven ever since we came to this beastly place, ..."

3. A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson (1919)
"... and Peggy, with the baby on her hip, took the cups from the table and with a tin cup filled them with coffee from the Dutch oven in which it ..."

4. History of Haverhill, N. H. by John Quincy Bittinger (1888)
"... and "Popped Corn" —"Lug Pole "—" Trammels "—Crane— Frying-pan—-Dutch oven — Spit—" The Goose Hangs High"—Furniture—Pots and Kettles—The Dresser—Pewter ..."

5. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... glancing at the tin sauce pan and the Dutch oven, " it's shocking ! " toast, " Success to Bardell agin Pickwick ; " and then the ladies emptied their ..."

6. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"... heap breadcrumbs over all, bedew them with melted butter, and brown them before the fire in a Dutch oven, or in baking tins in an ordinary oven. ..."

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