Because that's where you keep the deer and the antelope, of course. :-) Apparently the idea that you can put more than one pot on it to cook means you have a range (an arrangement, as it were). This use of the word goes back at least to Elizabethan English (as in Shakespeare's day). At that time even a fireplace that held more than one oven was a range. (That's how the word is used in the King James translation of The Bible, Lev 11:35.) Today the word implies a flat cooking top with an oven underneath, according to most dictionaries: a very particular arrangement.
1897 pittsburgh stove and range fireplace
A rhyming pair for unusual stove could be STRANGE RANGE.
The fire thing
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A stove. Hopefully, a gimballed stove!
$350
It was a closed-top range, patented by George Bodley, a Devon iron-founder. It was called a 'Kitchener' range.
A range is a rather old-fashioned term for a cooker or a stove.
A range is a type of cooking stove. A feature is an aspect of a face.
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How much is it worth?