窯かま

noun

kiln; furnace; oven or stove

Only when written 窯

A heated chamber or installation used for firing, baking, burning, or smelting. 窯 is especially natural for pottery kilns, charcoal kilns, and bread or pizza ovens; the English gloss 'stove' is best understood as an oven-like or furnace-like stove rather than an ordinary modern kitchen range.

• この窯かまで陶とう器きを焼やく。

  We fire pottery in this kiln.

• 新あたらしい窯かまでパンを焼やいた。

  I baked bread in the new oven.

noun

traditional cooking stove; hearth; stove

Only when written 竈 / 竃

With 竈 or 竃, this refers to an old-style cooking stove or hearth. The reading かま for these spellings is limited and old-fashioned; modern learners will more often meet 竈 as かまど for this object.

• 昔むかしの家いえでは、竈かまに薪まきをくべて料りょう理りした。

  In old houses, people cooked by feeding firewood into the hearth.