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cookstove

noun

Etymology

From cook + stove.

  1. derived from τῦφος
  2. derived from ex-
  3. derived from *extūfa✻
  4. derived from *stubu✻ — “heated room, bathroom, stove”
  5. borrowed from stove
  6. borrowed from stove
  7. compounded as cookstove — “cook + stove”

Definitions

  1. A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal,…

    A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

    • Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe
    • "Sarah Ann Collins, we're goin' right downstairs and stick this letter in that cookstove, quick!"
    • Teckla's father, the banker and trustee, owned a one-room cottage with a cook-stove and a two-story bunk, six miles out of town, on Lake Elizabeth, to be reached by a sandy trail, on foot or with horse and buggy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cookstove. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cookstove. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cookstove

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA