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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stokehole

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
stoke-hole
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.

noun

The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

stokeholes (plural)

Synonyms

stokehold fireroom

Questions

What does stokehole mean?
The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
Where does stokehole come from?
It is traced to Dutch.

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