a heating device that burns oil (typically either paraffin or fuel oil)
2.
a cooking device that burns oil (typically either paraffin or fuel oil)
Examples of 'oil stove' in a sentence
oil stove
They can't cook on oil stoves any more because the price of diesel is too high, so they have to cook with electricity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They import tropical trees into their cold climate, putting sweaters around the trunks and placing oil stoves beneath their leaves.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Some 850,000 households are without electricity, many lack hot water, and people are queueing for fuel for oil stoves, the standard form of winter heating.