fireroom

fireroom
Stokehold Stoke"hold`, n. (Naut.) The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, {fireroom}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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  • Fireroom — Fire room , n. Same as {Stokehold}, below. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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