Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cover, usually a circular disk, fitting an opening in the top of a cooking-stove or range.
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Examples
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A stove-lid rattled and ashes were stirred to life with a silken slurring.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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A stove-lid rattled and ashes were stirred to life with a silken slurring.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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QUOTATION: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
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She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid againand that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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She knocked him down with a stove-lid lifter and the
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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The stove-lid shot so close to my head it was no joke ... it took out the whole window-sash and lit in the outside snow.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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The stove-lid shot so close to my head it was no joke ... it took out the whole window-sash and lit in the outside snow.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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"Milk what?" he demanded, pausing with stove-lid and lifter raised in his hand, in the half-completed act of putting wood on the fire.
The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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Then the sun showed itself, glowing like a red-hot stove-lid shoved above the horizon.
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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I ran back to my room and locked myself in, and then stood, armed with the stove-lid lifter, in case it should be Ladley and he should break the door in.
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