stove 1
/stohv/ , n. , v. , stoved, stoving .
n.
1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.
v.t.
3. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
[ 1425-75; (n.) late ME: sweat bath, heated room, prob. stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, OHG stuba (G Stube room; cf. BIERSTUBE), ON stofa; early Gmc borrowing extupa, * extupa ( > F étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. STEW 1 ), n. deriv. of * extupare, * extufare to fill with vapor, equiv. to L ex- EX- 1 + VL * -tufare týphein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to typhos fever (see TYPHUS); alternatively explained as a native Gmc base, borrowed into Rom (cf. IZBA); (v.) late ME stoven to subject to hot-air bath, deriv. of the n. ]
stove 2
/stohv/ , v.
a pt. and pp. of stave .