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fireroom

/fahyuhr-room, -room/US // ˈfaɪərˌrum, -ˌrʊm //

消防室,火房,火场,消防局

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.

Examples

  • He stood at one side as the stokers filed in from forward, ready to relieve those working in the fireroom below.

  • The steady thump and rattle of the pumps by which the fireroom was being cleared of water continued to sound in her ears.

  • It was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.

  • 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.

  • Perhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.