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fireroom
[ fahyuhr-room, -room ]
noun
, Nautical.
- a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fireroom1
1830–40; Americanism
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Example Sentences
He stood at one side as the stokers filed in from forward, ready to relieve those working in the fireroom below.
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The steady thump and rattle of the pumps by which the fireroom was being cleared of water continued to sound in her ears.
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It was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.
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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.
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Perhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.
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