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stokehold

(n): (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired
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7 months ago yarb said:

Irritated voices were ascending through the skylight and through the fiddle of the stokehold in a harsh and resonant uproar, mingled with angry clangs and scrapes of metal, as if men with limbs of iron and throats of bronze had been quarrelling down there.

- Conrad, Typhoon

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