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
In the end volunteers were taken into the stokehole and the Southland was beached.
From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)
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 Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord
He was doing duty in the stokehole, when one of these loathsome creatures actually crept up under his pantaloons.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon
For the temperature in the stokehole of a battleship, when forced draft is being used, is about the highest in the world.
From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Webster, Frank V.
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