stokehold

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stoke·hold

 (stōk′hōld′)
n.
The area or compartment into which a ship's furnaces or boilers open.
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stokehold

(ˈstəʊkˌhəʊld)
n
1. (Nautical Terms) a coal bunker for a ship's furnace
2. (Nautical Terms) the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stokehold - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or firedstokehold - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
fireroom, stokehole
sailing, seafaring, navigation - the work of a sailor
chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space
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stokehold

[ˈstəʊkhəʊld] N → cuarto m de calderas
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Irritated voices were ascending through the skylight and through the fiddle of the stokehold in a harsh and resonant uproar, mingled with angry clangs and scrapes of metal, as if men with limbs of iron and throats of bronze had been quarrelling down there.
Then the noise ceased suddenly, and the second engineer appeared, emerging out of the stokehold streaked with grime and soaking wet like a chimney-sweep coming out of a well.
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She especially grasps the ways in which the struggle for jobs in the dirty and dark stokeholds of the steamers was a primary battleground in this clash between racialized segments of the working class.
Frances Steel, Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c.1870-1914

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