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stokehold

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stoke·hold  (stkhld)
n.
The area or compartment into which a ship's furnaces or boilers open.
stokehold [ˈstəʊkˌhəʊld]
n Nautical
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) a coal bunker for a ship's furnace
2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room
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Noun1.stokehold - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or firedstokehold - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
fireroom, stokehole
sailing, seafaring, navigation - the work of a sailor
chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space
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stokehold [ˈstəʊkhəʊld] N → cuarto m de calderas
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Irritated voices were ascending through the skylight and through the fiddle of the stokehold in a harsh and resonant uproar, mingled with angry clangs and scrapes of metal, as if men with limbs of iron and throats of bronze had been quarrelling down there.
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