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Definition of Primus stove
1. Noun. A portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers.
Definition of Primus stove
1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) A brand of portable stove that uses a wick and liquid fuel, used by campers and the like. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British) A brand of portable stove that uses a butane/propane gas fuel ("camping gas"), used by campers and the like. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primus Stove
Literary usage of Primus stove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian by Ralph Tracy Hale (1916)
"I got the primus stove going and made tea for all four of us and we all had ...
We filled the primus stove again, made them some tea and gave them some ..."
2. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"I groped for a spade, and crawling along the shaft drove it through the drift,
when a match burned immediately, the primus stove gave us no trouble, ..."
3. Mountain Craft by Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1920)
"At high altitudes only a primus stove, burning kerosene, will serve. ... The primus
stove and reserve of kerosene, in old petrol tins, must not be carried ..."
4. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"I groped for a spade, and crawling along the shaft drove it through the drift,
when a match burned immediately, the primus stove gave us no trouble, ..."
5. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"Although I had commonly done the cooking in the tent, whether with primus stove
or seal oil lamp, ..."
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