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(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
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fireroom
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired [syn: stokehold , stokehole ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stokehold \Stoke"hold`\, 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 ...
Usage examples of fireroom.
One group of air group pollywogs was herded into the fireroom, lined up behind the boilers and baked at 140 degrees for twenty minutes.
It was amazingly queer, it was like a nightmare, to see vertical white sunlight in the fireroom, and water sloshing in and out of the furnaces.
A search party went wading through the gutted, flooded fireroom in hip boots.
The voices of the search party echoed up from the dark watery fireroom as from a flooded tomb.
He waded across the fireroom in water that fell to his ankles and then rose to his waist as the ship rolled.
Two days ago he had been transferred from the after engine room, which was now entirely undamaged, to the watch in the fireroom where he had died.
The ship still had two boilers in the undamaged fireroom with which it could make twenty knots or so.
The after fireroom and engine room were knocked out and the men there killed.
The final shell ruptured the main steam line in the forward fireroom, killing three of the five-man crew instantly and scalding the other two, one fatally.
The only man left in the fireroom capable of action was an eighteen-year-old named Jackson McKaskill who had been a fireman for only two weeks.
Because it was a small house laid out across a single floor, there were only five rooms: the hallway gave out onto the brightly lit meditation room, which was adjoined by the bathing room and fireroom at the rear of the house, and the tea room and the small kitchen at the front.
And in the fireroom the shagshay furs smelled of new wool instead of sweat, and the stones of the two fireplaces were clean of ashes or soot.
He spent long nights sleeping on top of furs in the fireroom and longer days in the kitchen eating.
They talked while taking their stroll at low tide along the beach, and in the fireroom before sleeping they talked in hushed and intimate tones.
But he always found other things with which to occupy himself, whether it be cooking elaborate meals with Tamara in her kitchen, or dancing with her in the meditation room, or joining on the floor of the fireroom to work their way through the many hundreds of positions of the sexual yogas.