pot-bellied stove

noun, (also pot-belly stove) N Amer., a small bulbous stove for burning esp. wood (COD)

“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.”

“When I first started to school up there, we just had a big pot-belly stove in the centre of the room of the school.”

“And one of them, just a pot-bellied stove in the wintertime. I remember all the kids would hang their mitts. There’s a railing all around it, hang your mitts and everything on it, eh.”

“As you come in the church, like it had the pot-bellied stove was right here.”

“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.”