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
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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
"Can you get the Myra's engine-room and stokehold staff to work, Herr Klick?" asked the kapitan.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
They were arranged for working under natural draft, assisted by fans, which blew air into the open stokehold.
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government
You're one against thirty—more than that, counting the engine-room force and the stokehold bunch.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
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 Henry Leverage
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