noun
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another word for stokehold
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a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked
Etymology
Origin of stokehole
Example Sentences
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He, now 74, was then Thomas Johnstone Lipton, aged 17, who shipped as a stowaway, paying for his passage, after discovery, by shoveling in the stokehole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of a grimy stokehole full of perspiring firemen and piles of coal, I found a clean, white-painted place with one solitary but clean man regulating polished taps.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
Send some one down into the stokehole for Mr. Studdert.
From Tessa 1901 by Louis Becke
Punch was terribly impressed, as well he might be, when he heard that your steamer burned three hundred wagonloads a day, and he naturally supposed that all hands had been piped to the stokehole.
From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
He crawled down a short ladder and through low passageways dripping wet and so came into the stokehole.
From The Harbor by Ernest Poole
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