fireroom
[fahyuh r-room, -roo m]
- a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
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Origin of fireroom
1830–40; Americanism
Also called stokehold, stokehole.
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The fireroom is full of water; but it looks to me as though a seacock had been opened.
Ruth Fielding Homeward BoundAlice B. Emerson
No, only put me in the fireroom, shoveling coal in the furnace.
Dick in the EvergladesA. W. Dimock
It was a busy time in the fireroom, but there was nothing to do on deck but watch the steamer.
Within The Enemy's LinesOliver Optic
Perhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.
Ruth Fielding Homeward BoundAlice B. Emerson
It was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.
With the Battle FleetFranklin Matthews