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- noun Plural form of
firebox .
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Examples
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Other cookers usually vertical have what are called fireboxes in which the fire burns and wafts smoke and heat over and around the meat in the cooking chamber.
Celebrating Barbecue Dotty Griffith 2002
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Some five hundred workers were forced into local prisons before being shot or, in one particularly gruesome scene, taken to the railroad station and “fed alive into the fireboxes of locomotives.”
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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The locomotives were so exquisitely detailed you could see illumination from their fireboxes.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Coolest Stuff I Have Worked With In A While 2009
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Catalytic metal wood stoves use clever tricks to raise combustion temperatures and lower particle emissions: brick-lined fireboxes protect the metal to permit somewhat higher burn temperatures, and catalytic converters reignite smoke at lower temperatures, for less pollution.
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Should I not complain if most fireboxes don't work?
Spelling It Out for Red Hook Brooks of Sheffield 2007
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French and Belgian locomotives, though built like a watch in workmanship, some with all-copper fireboxes, had such a rigid wheelbase that they required track built to the most exacting standards; otherwise, as one American noted, “they just went off and started for somewhere else.”
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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French and Belgian locomotives, though built like a watch in workmanship, some with all-copper fireboxes, had such a rigid wheelbase that they required track built to the most exacting standards; otherwise, as one American noted, “they just went off and started for somewhere else.”
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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For the mechanically inclined, it was easy to see the steamer's fireboxes and pistons...
Sailing on the steamships of Naboo sbisson 2004
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While it embodies much chaos, some is contained by the waters of the harbor and by the ordered iron that binds the engines and fireboxes.
The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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Potto filled one of the stove's fireboxes and stroked a stick of kinding.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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