fireroom

[ fahyuhr-room, -room ]

/ ˈfaɪərˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

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noun Nautical.

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

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Also called stokehold, stokehole.

Origin of fireroom

1830–40; Americanism

Words nearby fireroom

fire raiser, fire red, fire resistance, fire-resistant, fire-retardant, fireroom, firesafe, fire sale, fire screen, fire setting, fire ship

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