Stokehold

Quick meaning: Stokehold is a noun meaning (nautical) A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked.

Meaning

(nautical) A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• stokeholds

Synonyms for stokehold

Depending on context, synonyms include fireroom, stokehole.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fireroom, stokehole, stowage, stade, staithe, stove.

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