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stokehole
/ ˈəʊˌəʊ /
noun
another word for stokehold
a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked
Word History and Origins
Origin of stokehole1
Example Sentences
Sulfur yellow is everywhere, from the audience’s stadium seating to a set piece for the“stokehole”of the ocean liner.
The “firemen” in “The Hairy Ape,” those men in the stokehole who feed the ship’s furnaces with coal, are anything but saints.
On this deck in the way of the boiler rooms were placed the electrically driven fans which provided ventilation to the stokeholes.
He was doing duty in the stokehole, when one of these loathsome creatures actually crept up under his pantaloons.
Sixty minutes exactly after it has been placed in the stokehole, it will blow the bottom out, and she will go down like a stone.'
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