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drum stove † [< G dial. drumm] 
1 Obs. a heating device used in German pioneer homes.
See also: drum ((n.)) drum oven dumb stove (see note)
- 1899 In the upper halls, dumb or drum stoves, cylindrical in form and made of sheet iron, through which the smoke pipe ran, served to collect heat for the benefit of those portions of dwellings including passage and general bed-rooms.
2 a stove made from an empty oil drum.
- 1966 . . . his cigarette was now sodden at the end and would not draw. He dropped it through a hole in the top of the drum stove. . . .
- 1899 In the upper halls, dumb or drum stoves, cylindrical in form and made of sheet iron, through which the smoke pipe ran, served to collect heat for the benefit of those portions of dwellings including passage and general bed-rooms.