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stokehold |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stokehold n : (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired [syn: {stokehole}, {fireroom}]
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