firebox

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Definition of firebox in English English dictionary: A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or the red pubic hair thereof, from box (“vagina”); The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned; The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned; The combustion chamber on a steam locomotive for generating heat which is used to convert water into steam in the engine's boiler; {i} furnace used to generate steam in a locomotive; The place where the combustion of coal (or oil) takes place that produces the hot gases that then pass through the boiler tubes to heat the water to produce the steam used to drive the locomotive; The metal box behind a steam locomotive's boiler, where the fuel is burned; a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned
fireboxes: plural of firebox

firebox

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