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stokehole

[ stohk-hohl ]

noun

  1. Also ٴǰ·DZ [] fireroom.
  2. a hole in a furnace through which the fire is stoked.


stokehole

/ ˈəʊˌəʊ /

noun

  1. another word for stokehold
  2. a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of stokehole1

First recorded in 1650–60; stoke 1 + hole
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Sulfur yellow is everywhere, from the audience’s stadium seating to a set piece for the“stokehole”of the ocean liner.

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The “firemen” in “The Hairy Ape,” those men in the stokehole who feed the ship’s furnaces with coal, are anything but saints.

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On this deck in the way of the boiler rooms were placed the electrically driven fans which provided ventilation to the stokeholes.

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He was doing duty in the stokehole, when one of these loathsome creatures actually crept up under his pantaloons.

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Sixty minutes exactly after it has been placed in the stokehole, it will blow the bottom out, and she will go down like a stone.'

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