stokehole

[ stohk-hohl ]

/ ˈstoʊkˌhoʊl /

Also stoke·hold

[stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/. fireroom.

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

Origin of stokehole

First recorded in 1650–60; stoke¹ + hole

Still another shell went down the funnel, disabling the stokehole and making it impossible to keep up a full head of steam.

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 |Various
In the end volunteers were taken into the stokehole and the Southland was beached.

"Over There" with the Australians |R. Hugh Knyvett
The after stokehole was flooded and water rolled sickeningly in the engine-pits.

Love Stories |Mary Roberts Rinehart
Then I climbed down a ladder into the stokehole; nobody was there either.

A German deserter's war experience |Anonymous

But with Eleanore pushing me on, I described the hell I had seen in the stokehole.

The Harbor |Ernest Poole

stokehole

/ (ˈstəʊkˌhəʊl) /

another word for stokehold

a hole in a furnace through which it is stoked