Associations to the word «Firebox»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
FIREBOX, noun. The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
FIREBOX, noun. The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
FIREBOX, noun. (vulgar) A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or her red pubic hair, from box.
Dictionary definition
FIREBOX, noun. A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.