Meaning
A small portable cooking stove — usually a metal or cast frame with a grate — that burns charcoal ('coal'), on which the pot sits to cook. Before gas and electricity were common, the coal stove was how most Jamaican households cooked, fanned up to a glow in the yard or kitchen, and many still keep one for cooking that tastes better over coals, or for when the current is off. It is close kin to the smaller coal pot.
Examples
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Light di coal stove fi cook di dinner.
Light the coal stove to cook the dinner.
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Fan up di coal stove till it red.
Fan up the coal stove until it's glowing red.
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When light gone, wi cook pon di coal stove.
When the power's out, we cook on the coal stove.
Origin
From 'coal' (charcoal) + 'stove'; a charcoal-burning cook stove. See [[coal-pot]], [[dutch-pot]].
How it’s used
A charcoal-burning cook stove; kin to the coal pot. See [[coal-pot]], [[dutch-pot]].