- beehive oven
- noun Date: circa 1881 an arched oven used especially for baking food and formerly for coking coal
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beehive oven
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Beehive oven — A beehive oven was used to turn coal into coke. References* [http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.com/coke2.html The Manufacture of Coke in a Beehive Coke Oven] The History of Beehive Ovens in West Blocton, AL [http://www.wbbm.org/history west… … Wikipedia
beehive oven — noun : a now little used arched coke oven in which heat is supplied by partial combustion of the coal within the oven chamber and no by products are recovered … Useful english dictionary
beehive — /bee huyv /, n. 1. a habitation or dwelling place constructed for bees, usually either dome shaped or box shaped. 2. a natural habitation of bees, as a hollowed out tree. 3. a crowded, busy place. 4. something resembling an artificial beehive in… … Universalium
beehive coke — noun : coke that is made in a beehive oven and is usually of large size and hard stringy structure … Useful english dictionary
Oven — depicted in a painting by Jean François Millet An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance.[1] It is most commonly used for cooking … Wikipedia
oven — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stove, range, roaster, broiler; hearth; furnace, kiln; rotisserie, rotary oven, Dutch oven, hibachi; convection or microwave oven. See heat. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. stove, toaster oven, rotisserie,… … English dictionary for students
beehive coke — n coke manufactured in beehive, rectangular, or similar forms of ovens in a horizontal bed, where heat for the coking process is secured by combustion within the oven chamber … Coke&Coal Terminology
coke oven — noun : an oven made usually of refractory brick and blocks and used for carbonization (as of coal) for the production of coke see beehive oven, by product oven * * * an oven for the conversion of coal into coke by heating the coal in the absence… … Useful english dictionary
biscuit oven — кондитерская печь traveling plate oven конвейерная печь с пластинчатым подом cube drying oven сушильная печь для прессованного рафинада beehive oven круглая, ульевая печь периодического действия three pan gas oven газовая печь с тремя рядами… … English-Russian travelling dictionary
confectionary oven — кондитерская печь traveling plate oven конвейерная печь с пластинчатым подом cube drying oven сушильная печь для прессованного рафинада beehive oven круглая, ульевая печь периодического действия three pan gas oven газовая печь с тремя рядами… … English-Russian travelling dictionary
