Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The area or compartment into which a ship's furnaces or boilers open.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The space below the decks of a steam-vessel where the boilers are located and fired; a stoke-hole. The stokehole may be constructed with air-tight bulkhead doors, so that a forced draft sent by fans or blowers into the hold finds its way out through the ash-pits and fuel-beds of the furnaces. This is the closed stoke-hold system. If the air comes in by natural means through openings for ventilation, the stoke-hold is ‘open,’ and no tight bulkhead doors are needed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; ; -- called also, in American ships,
fireroom .
WordNet 3.0
- n. (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
Examples
“The shells … bored their way even to the stokehold.”
“From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night.”
“But Elspeth ... and to haunt me in that stinking stokehold came the appalling question: suppose it was my skin or hers - would I turn tail then?”
“Mr. Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure -- produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold -- of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required.”
“Forced draught is produced by twelve 5 ft. 6 in. fans, three being stationed in each stokehold.”
“The firemen and other engine room and stokehold workers are located in rooms above the machinery with separate entrances and exits to and from their work.”
“So were all hands on board, when the news spread through the ship; and, on our reaching Mombassa late in the afternoon of the same day, steaming fifteen knots all the way, pretty nearly our full speed when the stokehold was not ` closed up, 'we found the _Merlin_ there before us, as the man on deck had told Larry and me in the morning.”
“Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.”
“There was some difficulty in recruiting a sufficient number of engineer officers, and of stokers who could manage the novel tubular boilers of the new battleships, and the fleet was undoubtedly handicapped by the inexperience of its engine-room and stokehold staff.”
“How could she overlook treatment which would have caused comment in the stokehold of a cattle ship?”
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yarb 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.
- Conrad, Typhoon Mar 26, 2008