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2 words match “STOKEHOLE”

STOKEHOLE n.
The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.
STOKEHOLD n.
ny 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.