Fireroom

Fireroom
Fireroom Fire"room`, n. Same as {Stokehold}, below. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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  • fireroom — /fuyeur roohm , room /, n. Naut. a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired. Also called stokehold, stokehole. [1830 40; Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

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