stokehold

British  

/ ˈstəʊkˌhəʊld /

noun

1. a coal bunker for a ship's furnace

2. the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room

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Example Sentences

This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Superspeed, a fair wind, and a straining stokehold crew, made the slight difference.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

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

Men danced on deck and shook their fists toward the cutter, while the stokehold crew took turns in coming to the rail of their hatchway and raving at the Bear.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

Then stand by to pick Mr. Hobson up if he follows you, and carry him down to the stokehold.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson