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• The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.From the entry fire box
• When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire.From the entry fire box
• Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles.1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273. From the entry derive
• The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 185. From the entry mattress
• The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.1951 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 283. From the entry surmount
• But instead of having an air jacket around the firebox or stove, it has many water pipes among the flames.1938, Benjamin Charles Gruenberg, Samuel P. Unzicker, Science in Our Lives, page 222. From the entry air jacket
• Slowly, laboriously the ship inched backward, her fireboxes glowing orange-red, the crack of blocks and the booming slam of her engines shattering the night.2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike. From the entry grasshop
• The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273. From the entry comparable
• Other conditions being equal, oil-firing has much to commend it on long runs, and the firebox equipment needed is of a relatively simple construction.1945 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 330. From the entry oil firing
• Measures were taken to obscure the glare from locomotive fireboxes, by arranging removable hooding over the footplate, linking the engine cab with the tender.1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 317. From the entry hooding
• In a conventional boiler, the hot gases from the firebox, after passing through the firetubes, arrive in the smokebox and then pass up the chimney to atmosphere.1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 420. From the entry firetube

Meaning of firebox

1. noun The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
2. noun The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
3. noun A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.

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How do you use firebox in a sentence?

Firebox is used as a noun. For example: “The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.”

What is a short sentence with firebox?

“The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.”

What does firebox mean?

Firebox means the chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.