stove

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stobu, *stobō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Doublet of stufa.

noun

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
   1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.
   We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. A stovetop, with hotplates.
4. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
   There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors. 1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8
   Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […] 1854, The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, volume 4, page 208
5. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
   April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

verb

1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
   to stove feathers
   The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system. 1975, William Geoffrey Potter, Uses of Epoxy Resins, page 39
2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
   to stove orange trees

Etymology 2

verb

1. simple past and past participle of stave