n. a collapsible, portable cast-iron stove originally made at the Carron Iron Works in Scotland.
- 1827  (1927)  [A manufactory of carron ware is carried on here [Three Rivers, Quebec].]
- 1914  . . . Jack Kerr was busy polishing the Carron Stove when this fellow came upstairs.
- 1946  As the old woman sat in front of the Carron stove, trying to get warm, my father found out her sad plight, through his interpreter.
- 1963  These Caron stoves were ungainly, closed in iron oblong receptacles for long billets of wood, showed no light from the fire, excepting when the sides became red hot but . . . radiated heat efficiently. . . .