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Definition of Firebox
1. Noun. A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned.
Definition of Firebox
1. Noun. The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned. ¹
2. Noun. The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned. ¹
3. Noun. (vulgar) A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or the red pubic hair thereof, from (term box vagina). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Firebox
1. a chamber in which fuel is burned [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firebox
Literary usage of Firebox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"The parallel boiler has of late years been adopted, as giving greater strength
in ita form and greater durability than the raised firebox form, which hitter ..."
2. Locomotive Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which Designate ...by George Little Fowler, American Railway Master Mechanics' Association by George Little Fowler, American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (1906)
"The sides and top or crown of a firebox of a locomotive boiler transmit the ...
The front or forward sheet of the firebox has a large number of holes in ..."
3. A Manual of Locomotive Engineering: With an Historical Introduction : a by William Frank Pettigrew (1899)
"These roof bars, which rest at their extremities on the tube plate and back plate
of the firebox, are attached to the roof of the firebox by means of ..."
4. Mechanical Equipment of Buildings: A Reference Book for Engineers and Architects by Louis Allen Harding, Arthur Cutts Willard (1917)
"firebox Boiler Construction. The firebox boilers arc usually built of mild, ...
By making use of wrought iron space rings around the legs of the firebox, ..."
5. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute, Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"Boiler and firebox Steel. ... the specifications of a number of railways, locomotive
works, and steel manufacturers for boiler and firebox steel. ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The latter consists of the main shell M and the waist W. THE firebox. ...
The locomotive firebox, as in Fig., consists of the back sheet b, two side sheets/ ..."
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