noun
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another word for stokehold
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a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked
Etymology
Origin of stokehole
Example Sentences
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He, now 74, was then Thomas Johnstone Lipton, aged 17, who shipped as a stowaway, paying for his passage, after discovery, by shoveling in the stokehole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of a grimy stokehole full of perspiring firemen and piles of coal, I found a clean, white-painted place with one solitary but clean man regulating polished taps.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
And if 'twasn't for me and my great strength, I'm telling you—and it's God's truth—there'd been mutiny itself in the stokehole.
From Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
In the end volunteers were taken into the stokehole and the Southland was beached.
From "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett
Azuma-zi had come, clad in white but insufficient raiment, out of the stokehole of the Lord Clive, from the Straits Settlements, and beyond, into London.
From The Door in the Wall and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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