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oil stove

n. A stove for heating or cooking powered by paraffin / kerosene

Usage examples of "oil stove".

She was now in her dressing gown and had lit the little coal-oil stove to start breakfast.

The living room had a table, a few kitchen chairs, an oil stove, and a large wicker chair for Christine near the window.

Jackstraw lit the oil stove, oil lamp and Colman pressure lamp, while Joss and I put the injured man on a collapsible cot before the stove, worked him into my sleeping-bag, slid in half a dozen heat pads - waterproof pads containing a chemical which gave off heat when water was added - placed a rolled up blanket under his neck to keep the back of his head off the cot, and zipped the sleeping-bag shut.

The oil stove is lit and I'll put it in the bedroom and it will be nice and warm.

The land engine's ready except for the plating, and I've got a little oil stove that I can use for the balloon.

I had a look at him as we sat him on a stool by an oil stove and I didn't have to look twice or very closely to see that this hadn't exactly been Alien's day.

Janet called softly and they sat in a circle round the oil stove, drinking hot tea and eating beans.

The meal was excellent, but before it was over the warmth of the oil stove and the whisky had made me drowsy.

He had fried ham steaks over the oil stove for him and Dahlquist, and eaten some himself.

The tiny flame of the oil stove gave just enough heat to boil water, but he crouched toward it as if he could soak up warmth.

Folks didn't see him around for a while, but it was kinda cold weather and they figured he was in there with his oil stove resting up.

Remembering what he had been told, Gampo pulled a small fuel oil stove from the rear, moved a distance away, then erected the legs.

Eva sat on a campstool in front of a small oil stove to ward off the evening chill.