stokehole

English

Etymology

From stoke +‎ hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Noun

stokehole (plural stokeholes)

  1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
    • 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 10:
      A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.
  2. (nautical) The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Synonyms

Translations
stokehold — see stokehold
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