Word.ws English Dictionary

fire box

fire box noun: the hearth of a metal-forging shop; the forge of a smithy.

Noun

fire box (plural fire boxes)

  1. The hearth of a metal-forging shop; the forge of a smithy.
  2. An enclosed hearth with hatch for refueling that is attached to or built into a boiler that supplies steam for mechanical power.
    • The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.
  3. The internal hearth of a furnace, stove, or heater.
  4. The hearth of an outdoor grill.
    • When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire.

fire box meaning in Tamil

fire box in Tamil

அடுப்பறை, நெருப்பு அறை

Forms of fire box

pluralfire boxes

Questions about fire box

What does fire box mean?
Fire box means the hearth of a metal-forging shop; the forge of a smithy.
What is fire box in Tamil?
Fire box in Tamil is அடுப்பறை, நெருப்பு அறை. See Fire box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fire box?
Fire box is a noun.
What is the plural of fire box?
The plural of fire box is fire boxes.

Words near fire box in the dictionary

  1. fire blocks
  2. fire board
  3. fire boards
  4. fire boss
  5. fire bosses
  6. fire box
  7. fire boxes
  8. fire break
  9. fire breaks
  10. fire breathing
  11. fire brick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fire box (page history and authors); fire box (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fire box.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fire_box. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.