Etymology

stokehole

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Today it means: The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended. Full definition →

Dutch stookgat
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  1. Dutch · derived fromstookgat
  2. English todaystokehole

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.