firebox

See also: fire box

English

Picture dictionary: steam locomotive

1=tender, 2=cab, 3=safety valve, 4=reach rod, 5=whistle, 6=dynamo, 7=sand dome, 8=regulator/throttle, 9=steam dome, 10=airbrake, 11=smokebox, 12=steampipe, 13=smokebox door, 14=rear bogie/trailing truck, 15=running board, 16=frame, 17=brake shoe, 18=sand pipe, 19=coupling rods, 20=valve gear motion, 21=connecting rod, 22=piston rod, 23=piston, 24=cylinder, 25=valve, 26=steam chest, 27=firebox, 28=boiler tubes and flues, 29=boiler, 30=superheater tubes, 31=regulator valves/throttle valves, 32=superheater, 33=chimney/smokestack, 34=headlight, 35=brake hose, 36=water compartment, 37=bunker, 38=grate, 39=ashpan, 40=axlebox/journal box, 41=compensating beams/equalising beams, 42=leaf springs, 43=driving wheels, 44=saddle/pedestal, 45=blastpipe/exhaust pipe, 46=leading bogie/pony truck, 47=cowcatcher/pilot, 48=coupling/coupler,

Etymology

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

Noun

firebox (plural fireboxes)

(rail transport) The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
- 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
  The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2." […] Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles.
The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
(slang) A redheaded.
1. (slang, vulgar) The pubic hair of such a woman.

Translations

chamber of steam engine

Catalan: fogó (ca) m
Czech: topeniště n
Finnish: tulipesä (fi)
German: Feuerbüchse f
Macedonian: ложиште n (ložište)
Russian: то́пка (ru) f (tópka)
Ukrainian: то́пка f (tópka)

part of fireplace

Bulgarian: огнище (bg) n (ognište)
Finnish: tulipesä (fi)
Macedonian: ложиште n (ložište)

readheaded woman

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