2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stokehold \Stoke"hold`\, 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; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, {fireroom}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: stokehold n : (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired [syn: {stokehole}, {fireroom}]
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