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Firebox

noun
1.
A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned.





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"Firebox" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment to raise the trap door and prop it up with a short piece of wood from the wreckage strewn about. Making the well-known signal used by railroad men in the United States as a sign for a fireman to shovel more coal into the firebox, Ned urged the others to descend into the darkness that yawned mysteriously at ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson


Words linked to "Firebox" :   furnace, steam locomotive


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