fireroom

[ fahyuh r-room, -roo m ]

/ ˈfaɪərˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.

Also called stokehold, stokehole.

Origin of fireroom

1830–40; Americanism

stokehole

[ stohk-hohl ]

/ ˈstoʊkˌhoʊl /

Also stoke·hold

[stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/. fireroom.

a hole in a furnace through which the fire is stoked.

First recorded in 1650–60; stoke¹ + hole

When the twenty South Africans had left the stokehold the relieving gang was set to work.

A Lively Bit of the Front |Percy F. Westerman
He means to find the owner, and if necessary is going to interrogate every man who went into that stokehold.

A Lively Bit of the Front |Percy F. Westerman
The stokehold was flooded with water, and Rea could do nothing.

Merchantmen-at-Arms |David W. Bone
Even on the ship she had sought distress—in the stokehold, in the steerage and the second cabin.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes

Word was passed to the lower deck and the stokehold: and the hum of talk rose, perhaps, half a note.

A Fleet in Being |Rudyard Kipling

stokehold

/ (ˈstəʊkˌhəʊld) /

a coal bunker for a ship's furnace

the hold for a ship's boilers; fire room

stokehole

/ (ˈstəʊkˌhəʊl) /

another word for stokehold

a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked