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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There was three feet of water in the stokeholds, but it's subsiding, thank goodness!
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Ventilating.—There were 12 electrically-driven fans for supplying air to the stokeholds, 6 electrically-driven fans for engine and turbine room ventilation.
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In the warmth of the stokeholds of the "Mondavia," before the opened doors of blazing furnaces, these half-perished men rapidly revived.
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He thought the work was nearly completed, but when one examined a vessel's engines the boiler was generally opened and he crept cautiously to the stokehold.
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If he's willing to work in the stokehold," he stipulated, "I don't think Captain Dove would ever know he's on board the ship.
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