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Definition of Fireroom
1. Noun. (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired.
Category relationships: Navigation, Sailing, Seafaring
Generic synonyms: Chamber
Definition of Fireroom
1. n. Same as Stokehold, below.
Definition of Fireroom
1. a room containing a ship's boilers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireroom
Literary usage of Fireroom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam Boilers (care and Operation) a Practical Guide to the Care and by American Technical Society (1920)
"To the above conditions may be added a suitable temperature in the fireroom.
No man can tend a fire properly in excessive heat. In stationary work it is not ..."
2. Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students, with Aids by William Frederick Durand, Charles Wilson Dyson (1917)
"[2] fireroom Routine Suppose that full head of steam has been formed on the ...
As soon as possible the operations in the fireroom should be brought to a ..."
3. Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students, with Aids by William Frederick Durand, Charles Wilson Dyson (1917)
"[2] fireroom Routine Suppose that full head of steam has been formed on the ...
As soon as possible the operations in the fireroom should be brought to a ..."
4. Marine Engineers' Handbook by Frank Ward Sterling (1920)
"Speed up the blowers, if in operation, keep fireroom hatches closed, ... In each
fireroom fitted for oil burning there shall be provided fire-extinguishing ..."
5. Handy Book for the Aid and Instruction of the Enlisted Men in the Engineer by Bruce Richardson Ware (1915)
"3 fireroom and haul fires boilers 10 and 12; close cross connection to port ...
fireroom passageway flooded: A. Pump out same with fire and bilge pump. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Engineering; a General Reference Work on Steam Boilers and by American Technical Society, Louis Derr (1919)
"To the above conditions may be added a suitable temperature in the fireroom.
No man can tend a fire properly in excessive heat. In stationary work it is not ..."
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