noun
- Plural of fireroom; compartments on a ship where furnaces and boilers are located and tended.
Usage: nautical; historical
Examples
- The crew worked long shifts in the firerooms of the steamship.
- Firerooms were hot, dangerous places where stokers shoveled coal into furnaces.
- Modern ships have largely replaced traditional firerooms with automated engine rooms.
- The firerooms of naval vessels required constant monitoring during wartime operations.