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English
Etymology
From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.
Noun
stokehole (plural stokeholes)
- The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.
- (nautical) The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.
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