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drum stove †
[< G dial. drumm]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Obs.
a heating device used in German pioneer homes.
Quotations
1899
In the upper halls, dumb or drum stoves, cylindrical in form and made of sheet iron, through which the smoke pipe ran, served to collect heat for the benefit of those portions of dwellings including passage and general bed-rooms.
2
a stove made from an empty oil drum.
Quotations
1966
. . . his cigarette was now sodden at the end and would not draw. He dropped it through a hole in the top of the drum stove. . . .