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
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 Eugene O'Neill
A virile manageress dominated them and drove with splendid efficiency a concealed kitchen team of four who sweated in the midst of steam in an underground stokehole.
From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
An iron house, of which the framing only is shown, extends from the gearing right back to the boiler, forming a most spacious engine room and stokehole.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various
In front of it, a small furnace is constructed with vents into the Laconicum, and with a stokehole that can be very carefully closed to prevent the flames from escaping and being wasted.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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