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
You're one against thirty—more than that, counting the engine-room force and the stokehold bunch.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
Even on the ship she had sought distress—in the stokehold, in the steerage and the second cabin.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
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
Slim, the Frisco dock rat, was redeeming himself, and his voice rolled up through the ventilators as he urged the Russians in the stokehold to renewed efforts.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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