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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Oven \Ov"en\, n. [AS. ofen; akin to D. oven, OHG. ofan, ovan, G. ofen, Icel. ofn, Dan. ovn, Sw ugn, Goth. a['u]hns, Gr ?, Skr. ukh[=a] pot.] A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: oven n : used for baking or roasting From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Oven Heb. tannur, (Hos. 7:4). In towns there appear to have been public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jer. 37:21) called "bakers' street" (the only case in which the name of a street in Jerusalem is preserved). The words "tower of the furnaces" (Neh. 3:11; 12:38) is more properly "tower of the ovens" (Heb. tannurim). These resemble the ovens in use among ourselves There were other private ovens of different kinds. Some were like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which were heated inside with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isa. 44:15; Jer. 7:18) or grass (Matt. 6:30), and when the fire had burned out small pieces of dough were placed inside or spread in thin layers on the outside, and were thus baked. (See {FURNACE}.) Pits were also formed for the same purposes, and lined with cement. These were used after the same manner. Heated stones, or sand heated by a fire heaped over it and also flat irons pans, all served as ovens for the preparation of bread. (See Gen. 18:6; 1 Kings 19:6.)
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