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Stove is an old fashioned English word for a cooker my nan used to refer to our cooker as a stove and my dad still does. Interestingly though he also refers to our electric and when we had one gas fire as a stove.

We say "stove" over here too although "range" is also used. Some people over here still say "icebox" (like my late aunt) for refrigerator. Some also say "Frigidare," which is a brand name refrigerator, I have one from 1938 that still works.

A potholder in Britain is the square shape oven cloth. We also have oven mits or gloves.

Pretty much the same here too.

We also say truck in fact I would say if you are under 50 in Britain you would use the word truck and lorry over 50 probably mainly lorry. We often use the term rig for the cab only.

Over there, we use "rig" too although more often, I've heard "tractor," "semi" or if a trailer is attached "10/14/18 wheeler." A low laying trailer is called a "lowboy," I once saw a "lowboy" loaded with two M-60 tanks when I was driving down on I-5 in California just outside of Bakersfield, it was back in 1987.

Sometimes various regions over here have their own terms, here in Pittsburgh, we use the term "gum band" for "rubber band" although a former boss of mine had a friend from the UK who called them "elastics."

Rubber band and elastic band both terms are used in Britain.

The word just elastic is normally used in connection with sewing when you want to elasticate something.

We also use the term tractor unit but most people in Britain unless in the freight business think of a tractor as this