Stokehold n. (Naut.) 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.
... some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure—produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold—of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required. The experiments made gave an evaporation of 7.61 lb. of water from 1 lb. of coal at 212 deg. Fahr., with 2 in. of water pressure, and 6.41 lb. with 6 in. of pressure. These results are low, ... — Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
... right enough," was the hasty response. "There has been an accident in the stokehold. ... — The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
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