noun
- the compartment on a ship where the furnaces are located and coal or fuel is stored for the boilers
Usage: nautical
Examples
- The crew worked in shifts to keep the fires burning in the stokehold.
- Coal dust filled the air in the ship’s stokehold.
- The stokehold was the hottest part of the vessel.
- Workers shoveled coal into the furnaces from the stokehold.
- The stokehold required constant ventilation due to the heat and fumes.
- During the voyage, the stokehold crew worked around the clock.