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
His opposite number, scenting trouble, had deserted him, and was making his way to the stokehold, hotly pursued by a couple of brawny bears.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
The old man left him alone in the mate's room till an hour ago and then told me to take him back to the stokehold.
From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson
There was no way through to the cabin and the girl save by way of the stokehold and the engine room, and the deck was crowded with alert revolutionists.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
"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 Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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