| 释义 |
stokehold|ˈstəʊkhəʊld|
[f. stoke v.2 + hold n.2]
An apartment containing the ship's boilers, where the stokers tend the furnaces.
1887W. S. Hutton Pract. Engin. Hand-bk. 112 Closed stokeholds working under air-pressure are better ventilated than open stokeholds. 1908W. W. Jacobs Salthaven ii, In the stokeholds of Vyner & Son's steamships he talked learnedly on coal with the firemen.
b. attrib.
1893Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 5/2 At one time the water in the ship was above the level of the stokehold plates. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, M‘Andrews' Hymn 37 Three feet [of water] were on the stokehold-floor—just slappin' to an' fro. |