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

1. : stokehold

2. obsolete : a room heated by a fireplace

/fuyeur"roohm', -room'/, n. Naut.

a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired. Also called stokehold, stokehole.

[1830-40; Amer.]