Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A metallic shelf over the back part of a cooking-stove or range, often attached to the rising-pipe. It is intended to be in the rising currents of hot air around the stove and to carry plates to be warmed, or to keep cooked food warm until it is called for.
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And what, I demanded of the frying-pan on its nail above the stove-shelf, was I getting out of it?
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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