cookstove

noun, N. Amer. an esp. wood-burning stove used for cooking (COD)

“They had an old wood cookstove that they cooked on most of the time anyway, and they were nice and cozy living in the kitchen.”

“You had to walk by the kitchen to get to where you sat down to eat, and they had two cookstoves in there just steamboating.”

“They’d have chickens and, well, pie, everything there and lug it all down there, and they’d have big old cookstoves.”

“They had big cookstoves right outside where they used to cook turkeys and all that stuff.”

“… the cookstove just a-raring!”

“They’d have these big old cookstoves going, and the boilers on them with making coffee.”

“They’d have a chicken supper in the middle of the winter along in February in the parish hall upstairs. And they’d have a dance going downstairs and all these people upstairs and two or three cookstoves just steamboating, you know, heating the gravy and potatoes and all this kind of stuff.”