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stokehold
CIDE DICTIONARY
stokehold, n.
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; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stokehold, n. a compartment in a steamship, containing its boilers and furnace.
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