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Encyclopedia Britannica



STOVE

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 972 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STOVE , an apparatus for
heating
  a room, building, green-
house
  or hothouse, or for cooking. It is essentially closed or partially closed, as distinct from the open grate or fireplace, and consists of a receiver in which the
fuel
  is burned, of cast or
sheet
 -iron, tiles cemented together and backed or even of solid masonry. Stoves may be classified according to the
fuel
  burned (see
HEATING
 ). The word was originally of wider meaning and was used of a heated room,
house
  or chamber, thus the O. Eng. stela glosses balneum, and mod. Ger. Slube and Dan. slue mean merely a room, O. H. Ger. Stubd, Stupa being used of a heated bathroom; early Du. stove also was used in this wider sense, the later form
stool
  is used as in modern English, and this may be the immediate source of the present meaning, the early word having been lost. Romanic languages borrowed it, e.g. Ital. stufa, Fr. etuve, O. Fr. estuve, whence was adapted Eng. " stew," properly a bath or hothouse, used chiefly in plural " stews," a brothel, and " to stew," originally to bathe, then to boil slowly, and as a noun, a
mess
  of stewed
meat
 . " Stew," a fish-
pond
 , is a Low German word stouwe, dam, weir, fish-
pond
 , from stouwen, to dam up, cf. Ger. stauen, Eng. stow.


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