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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



... extending about half the length of the boiler from the fire doors. Two fire tubes, each about 3 feet in diameter, returned the gases from the inside end of the fireboxes to the stacks at the firing end. Except at the fire-door end, the firebox was completely surrounded by water. The boiler pressure of about 6 psi was not maintained, varying somewhat with each stroke of ...
— Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran • Howard I. Chapelle


Words linked to "Firebox" :   steam locomotive, furnace


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