stokehole

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noun

The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

Similar
stokeholdfireroom
OriginDutch stookgat →
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Meanings

nounstokehole (plural stokeholes)

plural stokeholes

  1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

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

    1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10
  2. nauticalThe place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar
stokehold

noun(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired

Similar
stokeholdfireroom
Broader
chamber
Also see
fireroomstokehold

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Dutchstookgat
  2. Englishstokehole

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

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APA

stokehole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stokehole

MLA

“stokehole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stokehole. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stokehole,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stokehole.

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