bakeoven

noun

Etymology

From bake + oven.

  1. inherited from *aukʷ- — “cooking pot
  2. inherited from *uhnaz
  3. inherited from *ofn
  4. inherited from ofn
  5. inherited from oven
  6. compounded as bakeoven — “bake + oven

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of bake oven

    • Mexican plowmen compelled to resume work immediately after dinner would die like the peons whom the Spanish conquerors forced to work the highways in the bakeoven heat of the tropical afternoon.
    • Many larger taverns maintained outdoor bakeovens.
    • Sweat is everywhere. Some comes from the bakeoven heat in the boxcar; some from the pain of throbbing wounds.

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