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firebox

[ UK /fˈa‍ɪ‍əbɒks/ ]
NOUN
  1. a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned

How To Use firebox In A Sentence

  • The mother built the fire, the children kept the firebox filled, and the father cut the firewood.
  • Taking our lives in our hands, we walked back through the yards so we could spend a last few minutes there watching the fireboxes flash and glow in the night.
  • It's their new model called the "firebox" made of eucalyptus wood and has a curved lid. Anybody try out some good diaphragm calls this year?
  • A far more efficient option is a fire which has a convector firebox to boost output.
  • For Mr English, whose company English Welding Services has gained a nationwide reputation in steam-traction engineering for repairs to locomotive boilers and fireboxes, the task is one of the most prestigious he has yet undertaken.
  • Mantels made from noncombustible materials such as plaster, concrete, and stone can be built close to the firebox opening without an intervening surround of marble, slate, or tile.
  • Their small drivers and big fireboxes were ideal for this service.
  • The fire crews at the Colne Valley Railway in Castle Hedingham have to endure temperatures in excess of 65C for hours at a time as they shovel coal into the trains' fireboxes.
  • This in turn would mean altering the frames and fitting new boilers with narrow fireboxes to fit between the frames.
  • In fact there are now some premanufactured refractory firebox retrofits that work well with a 15 to 1 ratio and deliver twice the heat of conventional fireboxes.
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