Meanings
nounsmokebox (plural smokeboxes)
plural smokeboxes
- A chamber in which smoke passes from a boiler before being vented through a chimney.
1 more example
[…] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
Origin
Translations
Finnish savupesä
- savupesächamber before chimney
French boîte à fumée
- boîte à fuméechamber before chimney
Greek καπνοθάλαμος
- καπνοθάλαμος (kapnothálamos)chamber before chimney
Polish dymnica
- dymnicachamber before chimney
Swedish sotskåp, rökskåp
- sotskåpchamber before chimney
- rökskåpchamber before chimney
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