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stokehold en · NOUN

Etymology

From stoke + hold.

Meanings

1. A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked.
   • A plume of smoke went nearly straight up from the funnel, and now and then the clang of furnace-slice and shovel rose from the stokehold, for Mayne hoped to float the vessel next tide. 1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer:
   • Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold. 1887, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887:
   • The noise and roar of the engines was ever in my ears, and the peculiar ocean-like noise of the stokehold ... and the metallic clang of coal as it shot from shovels.... 1922, Harry Kemp, Tramping on Life:

Forms

Synonyms

fireroom · stokehole

Translations (5)

bg котелно (a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked) · ru коте́льная (a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked) · he מַסָּקָה (a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked) · fi kattilahuone (a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked) · ru кочега́рка (a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked)