coke oven
noun
an oven for the conversion of coal into coke by heating the coal in the absence of air so as to distill the volatile ingredients.
Origin of coke oven
First recorded in 1830–40
Words nearby coke oven
coitus,
coitus interruptus,
coitus reservatus,
cojones,
coke,
coke oven,
coked-up,
cokehead,
coker,
cokernut,
cokuloris
Example sentences from the Web for coke oven
Some descriptions of gas-tar indeed differ very much more than coke-oven tar from pure coal-tar, viz.
The old form of coke-oven was called the bee-hive on account of its shape.
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