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火炉,窑以火炉烤stave的过去式和过去分词

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.]
   1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;
      to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave
      in a boat.

   2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

            The condition of a servant staves him off to a
            distance.                             --South.

   3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
      off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

            And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or
            guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon
            them perilously.                      --Tennyson.

   4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

            All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.

   5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.

   6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
      iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which
      lead has been run.

   {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose
      with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to
      hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.

Stove \Stove\,
   imp. of {Stave}.

Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
   room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a
   heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.
   stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.
   {Estufa}, {Stew}, {Stufa}.]
   1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing
      house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly,
      designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a
      parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense,
      to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes
      or in the processes of the arts.

            When most of the waiters were commanded away to
            their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
            emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
                                                  Strafford.

            How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
            caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
            or under the pole!                    --Burton.

   2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for
      fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously
      constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a
      room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

   {Cooking stove}, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
      kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.

   {Dry stove}. See under {Dry}.

   {Foot stove}. See under {Foot}.

   {Franklin stove}. See in the Vocabulary.

   {Stove plant} (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
      to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.

   {Stove plate}, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.

Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stoving}.]
   1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,
      to stove orange trees. --Bacon.

   2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

资料来源 : WordNet®

stave
     v 1: furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"
     2: burst or force (a hole) into something [syn: {stave in}]
     [also: {stove}]

stave
     n 1: (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the
          musical notes are written [syn: {staff}]
     2: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
        barrel or bucket [syn: {lag}]
     3: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: {rung}, {round}]
     [also: {stove}]

stove
     n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
          already on the stove" [syn: {kitchen stove}, {range}, {kitchen
          range}, {cooking stove}]
     2: any heating apparatus

stove
     See {stave}
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