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stokehole

stokehole noun: the aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

Noun

stokehole (plural stokeholes)

  1. The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
    • A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10
  2. The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

stokehole meaning in Tamil

stokehole in Tamil

நீராவிக் கப்பலின் உலைக்கள அறை

Synonyms of stokehole

Forms of stokehole

pluralstokeholes

Origin of stokehole

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Questions about stokehole

What does stokehole mean?
Stokehole means the aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
What is stokehole in Tamil?
Stokehole in Tamil is நீராவிக் கப்பலின் உலைக்கள அறை. See Stokehole meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stokehole?
Stokehole is a noun.
What is the plural of stokehole?
The plural of stokehole is stokeholes.

Words near stokehole in the dictionary

  1. stoked
  2. stoked up
  3. Stokeham
  4. stokehold
  5. stokeholds
  6. stokehole
  7. stokeholes
  8. Stokely
  9. Stokelys
  10. Stokenchurch
  11. Stokenham

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