fireroom
IPA: fˈaɪrrum
noun
- (nautical) stokehold
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Examples of "fireroom" in Sentences
- I wouldn't have stuck it out in that fireroom for one day.
- "The shift in the fireroom is short-handed," said the voice.
- "No, only put me in the fireroom, shoveling coal in the furnace."
- He was about to tell Hans of his discovery in the after fireroom, but thought better of it.
- He gave me an easy one, for a boy, but I struck and asked for a man's work, and got it -- in the fireroom.
- There were injuries, bruises, a broken arm, and a fatality when a man fell from a catwalk in the forward fireroom.
- He knew there was a small room behind it, inside one of the blower shafts which brought outside air to the fireroom.
- "You look like a regular snipe, Ranke," said Erich Hippke, Quartermaster with the watch after Kurt's, as Kurt climbed out of the fireroom.
- Later, when his nerves had settled somewhat, Kurt eased through a hatch into the after fireroom, which had been secured since the damage to the port screw.
- I was certainly the first fireroom officer aboard the Taussig who ever conducted his own hull inspections — I did my own diving — and who wore green fatigues while pawling over, under, around, and through the whole boiler and propulsion system before I signed off that any specific work had been done.
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