stokehole en · NOUN
Etymology
From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.
Meanings
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The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.
1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:
- The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stokeholes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |