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
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A rhyming pair for unusual stove could be STRANGE RANGE.
A stove. Hopefully, a gimballed stove!
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It was a closed-top range, patented by George Bodley, a Devon iron-founder. It was called a 'Kitchener' range.
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A range is a type of cooking stove. A feature is an aspect of a face.
The No17 King Stove and Range Company was established in 1885. As of 2023, the company is 138 years old.
The No. 8-20 perfection stove was made by the Martin Stove and Range Company in the year 1910. This model was part of a line of stoves designed for home cooking during that era. Martin Stove and Range Company was known for producing high-quality cast iron stoves that were popular in many households.
Depends on the stove, the kind of stove, and when. Do you mean a wood burning kitchen range from 1900 or a heating stove from 1940, or an electric range from 1960? Parts of the early Sears catalogs are available on line, and you can look at the price of things from around 1902.
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