stokehole

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

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.1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:

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

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