The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STOVE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STOVE
- Ignoring resistance, made great effort to provide heater
- … to find cooker covered in pesto verde
- Bashed in first of stakes to dishearten vampire
- Kitchen device brings some happiness to Vera
- It may be used for cooking Pesto Veggie sandwiches
- Range of street deliveries curtailed
- Four-letter range, single vowel range
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What does STOVE mean?
STOVE noun- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
- To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
- To walk or move rapidly.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.