English Explanatory Dictionary

stokehole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
  2. The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Word forms

stokehole stokeholes

Etymology

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Synonyms

stokehold
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