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stokehold

/ ˈəʊˌəʊ /

noun

  1. a coal bunker for a ship's furnace
  2. the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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There was three feet of water in the stokeholds, but it's subsiding, thank goodness!

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No. 5 boiler room was damaged at the ship's side in the starboard forward bunker at a distance of 2 feet above the stokehold plates, at 2 feet from the water-tight bulkhead between Nos.

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In the warmth of the stokeholds of the "Mondavia," before the opened doors of blazing furnaces, these half-perished men rapidly revived.

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He thought the work was nearly completed, but when one examined a vessel's engines the boiler was generally opened and he crept cautiously to the stokehold.

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The stokehold of the Olive Branch, and then its engine-room, seemed to have sapped whatever intelligence he might once have possessed.

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