fireroom

[ fahyuhr-room, -room ]

nounNautical.
  1. a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.

Origin of fireroom

1
1830–40; Americanism

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. Emerson
  • The 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. Emerson
  • It was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.

    With the Battle Fleet | Franklin Matthews
  • He 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. Dimock
  • Perhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.

    Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound | Alice B. Emerson