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
Clanking doors and scraping shovels on the iron plates of the stokehold marked where the Russians were feeding the Pole Star's fires.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
No. 5 boiler room was damaged at the ship's side in the starboard forward bunker at a distance of 2 feet above the stokehold plates, at 2 feet from the water-tight bulkhead between Nos.
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by Government, British
The engine-room crew and stokehold crowd had redoubled their efforts in order to sheer the ship from the land.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
Slim was the leader of the stokehold and engine-room crew, which was entirely under the influence of the two engineers.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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