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stokehole

noun

Etymology

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

  1. derived from stookgat

Definitions

  1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

    • A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.

  2. The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal

    The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA