[f. STOVE sb.1 + -FUL.] A quantity that fills a stove; as much as a stove can contain.
1838. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 380/2. Your apparatus, with rather less fuel, has thoroughly dried each stove-full in ten days.
1870. Hartford Daily Courant, 29 Aug., 2/5. Two pieces, weighing an ounce each, will kindle a stoveful of coal.