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
Still another shell went down the funnel, disabling the stokehole and making it impossible to keep up a full head of steam.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various
And if 'twasn't for me and my great strength, I'm telling you—and it's God's truth—there'd been mutiny itself in the stokehole.
From Anna Christie by O'Neill, Eugene
Send some one down into the stokehole for Mr. Studdert.
From Tessa 1901 by Becke, Louis
Day and night the land was oppressed by the same stifling heat, a sweltering calidity possessing the characteristics of a steam-laundry, coupled with those of the stokehole of an ocean liner in the Red Sea.
From My Strangest Case by Boothby, Guy
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