firebox

Meaning

1. The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
2. The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
3. (slang, vulgar) A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.

Synonyms

brazier

furnace

grate

hearth

tank

melting chamber

furnace chamber

furnace cavity

Translations

foyer

caminus

broeinest

haard

focolare

fornello

braseiro

fogão

🔥

fornalha

forn

fogón

Feuerung

Feuerkammer

âtre

Etymology

From fire + box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).

Sentences

The firebox was made of steel rather than the rarer and more expensive copper .