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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

   "A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole."

2. 2
   (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired wordnet
3. 3
   The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Synonyms

All synonyms

stokeholdstokeholdfireroom

Example

More examples

"A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole."

Etymology

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Related phrases

reverberatory furnace

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