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Carron stove
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Caron
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a collapsible, portable cast-iron stove originally made at the Carron Iron Works in Scotland.
Quotations
1827
[A manufactory of carron ware is carried on here [Three Rivers, Quebec].]
1914
. . . Jack Kerr was busy polishing the Carron Stove when this fellow came upstairs.
1946
As the old woman sat in front of the Carron stove, trying to get warm, my father found out her sad plight, through his interpreter.
1963
These Caron stoves were ungainly, closed in iron oblong receptacles for long billets of wood, showed no light from the fire, excepting when the sides became red hot but . . . radiated heat efficiently. . . .