stokehold
Britishnoun
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a coal bunker for a ship's furnace
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the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room
Example Sentences
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This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several deck-hands were, however, needed before he was conveyed into the stokehold and left in front of a bunker with a shovel in his hand.
From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss
The old man left him alone in the mate's room till an hour ago and then told me to take him back to the stokehold.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
"There's four feet of water in the for'ard stokehold."
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
In No. 5 boiler room there was no water above the stokehold plates, until a rush of water came through the pass between the boilers from the forward end, and drove the leading stoker out.
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government
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