What does stokehold mean?
Stokehold means (nautical) A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nautical) A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked..
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.
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.
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....
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Stokehold means (nautical) A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked..
Common synonyms include fireroom, stokehole.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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