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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stoving, Stoven, ppl. adj. [Stove v.] Only in comb. as stoving pan, pot, a pan or pot for cooking in the manner of Stove v. b. —1641 Dunferm. Hammermen 21.
[The] assay … [sc. of the coppersmiths] Ane stoving pan and ane scovit, [and again,] ane stewen pan and skeilit 1641 Edinb. Test. LIX 269b.
Ten stoving pannes and selled panns of quhyt irone 1649 Edinb. Test. LXIII 292b.
Ane stoving pan with ane quhyt irne hand 1653 Edinb. Test. LXVII 144.
Tua stoving pottis estimat all to tua pund 1668 Arch. Scot. I 176.
A stoven pan
