stokehole
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.
Noun
[edit]stokehole (plural stokeholes)
- The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:
- A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.
- (nautical) The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]stokehold — see stokehold