coal stove

noun, a stove that burns coal for heating and cooking

“I still have over there the little poached egg container, and Mom boiled all her needles and anything in it, and when it was on the coal stove or on the gas range, it had a tinkle to it.”

“We’d go skating at recess, and we were allowed to keep our skates on in the schoolhouse ’cause there was a coal stove in the middle, and we’d be clump, clump, clump. You’d be walking around with these skates on ’cause we’d go skating at noon.”

“Try to cook something, and you only had them little coal stove, then.”

“Yeah I was gonna ask you about coal ’cause then I grew up with a coal stove.”