fireroom

• Nom désignant une chambre ou un compartiment à bord d'un navire où l'on alimente ou allume les chaudières, ou plus généralement un local contenant des fours ou des foyers.

A noun referring to a chamber or compartment on a ship where the furnaces are stoked or fired.

1. Ship's boiler compartmentC1formaltechnical

   A compartment on a ship where the boilers and furnaces are located and stoked to generate steam power.

   Chambre des chaudières

   • The engineer descended into the fireroom to check the pressure gauges.
   • Stokers worked in shifts in the hot, noisy fireroom.
   • The fireroom was the heart of the old steamship's propulsion system.

   Synonymesstokehold