[f. STOKE v.2 + HOLD sb.2] An apartment containing the ship’s boilers, where the stokers tend the furnaces.
1887. W. S. Hutton, Pract. Engin. Hand-bk., 112. Closed stokeholds working under air-pressure are better ventilated than open stokeholds.
1908. W. W. Jacobs, Salthaven, ii. In the stokeholds of Vyner & Son’s steamships be talked learnedly on coal with the firemen.
b. attrib.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 28 Dec., 5/2. At one time the water in the ship was above the level of the stokehold plates.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, M‘Andrews’ Hymn, 34.
| Three feet [of water] were on the stokehold-floor—just slappin’ to an’ fro— | |
| An’ cast me on a furnace-floor. I have the marks to show. |
