Definition of "gas-stove" [gas-stove]

• An apparatus for utilizing coal-gas, water-gas, or the vapor of gasolene in heating and cooking, by means of small jets. Large gas-stoves are sometimes called gas-ranges. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They lie repeatedly to the world (whose journalists seem willing to swallow stories and versions of stories as told by Hamas crooks they wouldn't otherwise buy a second hand kitchen gas-stove from)."
• "Broiling on a gas-stove is equivalent to broiling over a fire."
• "In the hall there was a gas-stove, which was kept burning, and gave a faint glimmer, so that each could see the outline of the other."