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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stove or oven in which formerly gunpowder was dried after granulation by cautiously regulated radiation from surfaces of heated iron: a process now replaced by the use of steam-pipes. Also, by ellipsis, gloom.
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hernesheir commented on the word gloom-stove
For drying gunpowder granules. Kind of like toasting sesame seeds or kasha. When you get it too hot it becomes a Kaboom!-stove.
January 23, 2013