fireroom
[ fahyuhr-room, -room ]
nounNautical.
a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
Origin of fireroom
11830–40; Americanism
- Also called stokehold, stokehole.
Words Nearby fireroom
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How to use fireroom in a sentence
He stood at one side as the stokers filed in from forward, ready to relieve those working in the fireroom below.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound | Alice B. EmersonThe steady thump and rattle of the pumps by which the fireroom was being cleared of water continued to sound in her ears.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound | Alice B. EmersonIt was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.
With the Battle Fleet | Franklin MatthewsHe gave me an easy one, for a boy, but I struck and asked for a man's work, and got it—in the fireroom.
Dick in the Everglades | A. W. DimockPerhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound | Alice B. Emerson
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