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Definition of Stokehold

1. Noun. (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired.

Definition of Stokehold

1. n. The space, or any 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.

Definition of Stokehold

1. Noun. (nautical) a chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked. ¹

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Definition of Stokehold

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stokehold

Literary usage of Stokehold

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"Finally, he tried forcing the air into a closed stokehold, and found it more ... The closed stokehold system of forced draught consists in forcing air, ..."

2. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"Finally, he tried forcing the air into a closed stokehold, and found it more ... The closed stokehold system of forced draught consists in forcing air, ..."

3. Marine Engines and Boilers, Their Design and Construction: A Handbook for by Gustav Bauer (1905)
"These dampers are so arranged that they close automatically when the fire doors are opened, in order to prevent the flames from entering the stokehold, ..."

4. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"Finally, he tried forcing the air into a closed stokehold, and found it more ... The closed stokehold system of forced draught i forcing air, ..."

5. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"2, Plate 70, and Plate 109) opening into the stokehold. As the lower bunkers are emptied they are replenished from the upper, the coal falling automatically ..."

6. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1899)
"Fah., and we do not, therefore, exaggerate in our estimate of the temperature of the stokehold. It is reported that the firemen were constantly being ..."

7. Marine Boilers: Their Construction and Working Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin, Leslie Stephen Robertson (1906)
"Finally, he tried forcing the air into a closed stokehold, and found it more economical than the system of induced draught in the funnel. ..."

8. The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for Engineering Students, Young by Richard Sennett, Henry John Oram (1913)
"stokehold ventilation.—Care is required to ensure the proper ventilation of the stokehold. When natural draught only is used, screens are generally required ..."

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