Dutch oven
A Dutch oven is a thick-walled metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
A camping, cowboy or chuck wagon Dutch oven has three legs and a flat, rimmed lid, so that coals from the cooking fire can be placed on top as well as below. This provides more uniform internal heat and lets the inside act as an oven. They are ordinarily made of cast iron, although some are aluminum. See cooking on a campfire.
A Dutch oven furnace is a primitive furnace of rectangular shape made out of firebrick. It was usually used to burn wood. The refractory brick stored heat and released it slowly to the room.
Other cooking devices also called Dutch ovens
The term is also used for two other cooking devices: a metal shield used before an open fire for roasting, and a brick oven in which the preheated walls do the cooking.
Modern dutch ovens consist of a covered, shallow cooking pan set on legs and heated from below with a built-in electrical heating element.
Some also use the term Dutch oven as that of one that teenagers do to torment friends. In which case one would jump in to ones bed pull covers over whole body and continue to pass gas. Thus making a large dutch oven then releasing the gasses to the room and inhaling.