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stokehold

stokehold

9.9
A hot room in a ship where crew shovel coal into furnaces
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : cámara de combustión
  • The crew worked tirelessly in the stokehold to keep the steam engines running.

Examples

  • In the stokehold, the heat from the furnaces was intense as the team loaded more coal.

  • Before setting sail, they inspected the stokehold to ensure the furnaces were ready for operation.

  • Many years later, he described to me his sensations on entering the stokehold of that liner.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

stokehole
vsstokehold
  • Archaic
9.9

A hot room on a steam ship where crew shovel coal into furnaces

is the same in meaning but uses a different written ending
fireroom
vsstokehold
  • Archaic
9.9

A ship room where crew feed the fires that make steam for engines

is the same in meaning but uses a different word form

Surface Forms

stokehold singular
stokeholds plural

Morphology

stokehold = stoke + hold (transparent) = stoke + hold

The meaning follows directly from 'stoke' + 'hold': a ship compartment where fires are stoked; the formation is a straightforward compound.

Etymology

Stokehold comes from the verb stoke, meaning 'to feed a fire', and the word hold, meaning a ship's lower space for storage. So a stokehold is the hot compartment on a steamship where workers feed the furnaces to keep the engines running.