stokehold

How To Use stokehold In A Sentence

• As shown below, the stokehold vents provided entry for the massive airflow demanded by the boiler fires.
• Forced draught is produced by twelve 5 ft. 6 in. fans, three being stationed in each stokehold. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
• We are making for the engine room and stokehold, Mr Vicars, under the guide of a ship's engineer. ANTI-ICE
• How could she overlook treatment which would have caused comment in the stokehold of a cattle ship? The Clicking of Cuthbert
• The stokeholds were enclosed, and steam driven fans were used to force air into the stokeholds.
• But Elspeth ... and to haunt me in that stinking stokehold came the appalling question: suppose it was my skin or hers - would I turn tail then? Flashman's Lady
• There are coal bunkers each side of the stokehold and each of these holds 17 tons of steaming coal.
• From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night. Flashman's Lady
• John reports the stokehold was manned by 2 stokers each watch on the 4 hours on, 8 hours off system.
• Mr. Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure -- produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold -- of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881