Stokehold

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}]