wood stove

noun, a wood-burning stove (COD)

“They had a little wood stove and an oil lamp there.”

“The ice storm in ’98 … we had the wood stove to keep us warm. We had warm meals.”

“They’re fine. They had the wood stove going.”

“Where I lived when we were married, we had the wood stove and a little oil stove.”

“One teacher for everybody. An old wood stove in the centre … Pot-belly stove which could be very hot around it, and the rest of you’d freeze to death.”

“The odd person had an oil burner too, I guess, but there’s a lot of wood stoves, wood furnaces.”

“You didn’t have the pipe fires with the oil burner that you did with the old wood stove.”

“We were pretty little. Anyway, we had a wood stove, an old pot-bellied stove. And if you sit by the stove, you were lucky ’cause it was nice and warm, you know.”

“You lit the stove in the fall, and you dasent let it out ’til May, you know … But stove’s down there in the garage yet, mint condition, but nobody wants a wood stove anymore.”

“Dad had pigs. He always raised pigs. When the mother was gonna have pigs, it would be colder than heck, and we’d have to bring — if the barn were cold — we’d have to bring them in and put them behind the wood stove to keep warm.”

“She had a big wash boiler, a copper boiler, you know, about this big,  about this high, about this wide. Put it on the wood stove, and boil it, the syrup, and carefully watch the temperature. 219º was syrup. More than that was sugar. So we had to watch it carefully.”

“Back then you just had more or less wood stoves, eh. Well the odd person had an oil burner too, I guess, but there’s a lot of wood stoves, wood furnaces. So there was always wood to cut in the wintertime.”

“We used to have one of those little racks too at home and … I slice up a potato and just toss it on top of that for … it’s half-burnt, half-raw. It’s a real treat. Yeah, we did that from the time I was a kid. With the wood stove.”

“I’ve got all these old papers … I’d lose track of time when I’m looking at that stuff, and when I was heating with the wood stove, I’d look, you know; I’d be so absorbed in what I was doing, and then all of a sudden I’d be freezing because I’d forget to put the wood in.”