stokehole

English

Etymology

From stoke +‎ hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Noun

stokehole (plural stokeholes)

1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
   • 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:

     A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.

2. (nautical) The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Synonyms

• stokehold

Translations

stokehold — see stokehold