stokehole

How To Use stokehole In A Sentence

• In front of it, a small furnace is constructed with vents into the Laconicum, and with a stokehole that can be very carefully closed to prevent the flames from escaping and being wasted. The Ten Books on Architecture
• Her manipulation of capitalist power relations by drawing on her status as a millionaire in order to acquire access to the stokehole epitomizes what he refers to as a ‘compromise with modern industrial capitalism at…key points’.
• The play's opening scene presents life in the cramped stokehole, where ‘the ceiling crushes down on the men's heads’ and the attitudes of the stooping, proto-simian workers suggest beasts in a cage, ‘imprisoned by white steel.’
• While Mildred's intrusion into the stokehole stages the disabling paradox of ‘vital contact,’ it is not the only example of psychologically disruptive cross-class contact in the drama.
• Still another shell went down the funnel, disabling the stokehole and making it impossible to keep up a full head of steam. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
• Yank is the authority among the stokers and refers to the stokehole as ‘home’.
• Just as the boat passed the town, in the midst of a heavy rain squall, the stokehole hatches in the deck were shut, and the dull humming roar of the fans showed that the fires were being got up. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
• Sure what else but love for us poor bastes in the stokehole would be bringing a fine lady, dressed like a white quane, down a mile of ladders and steps to be havin’ a look at us? Scene IV. The Hairy Ape
• During this time the stokehole hatches were open, but the fans were kept running at slow speed to maintain a moderate draught. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
• _ -- Just returned from the engine room, having made up to the chief engineer, who took me over the machinery and stokehole. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"