firebox

Engine's burning heart

A firebox is the chamber in a furnace, boiler, or steam engine where fuel is burned.

In wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, it's the enclosed space that contains the fire: The firebox needed cleaning after a winter of heavy use.

The term emphasizes containment—fire held within a box-like structure.

locomotive

steam

Heated water's gaseous form

coal · railway · train · stoker · fireman · ashpan · grate · smokebox · draft · cylinder

combustion

flame

Burning gas made visible

oxygen · reaction · energy · thermal · pyrolysis · embers · glow · blaze · char · smolder

stove

cooking

Preparing food with heat

  • kitchenFood preparation room
  • ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
  • rangeExtent of variation

cooktop · burner · woodburning · cast iron · cookstove · potbelly · Franklin · bake · roast · heat

cozy

warmth

Heat you feel

comfort · snug · toasty · crackling · homely · welcoming · gathering · ambiance · flickering · radiant heat

hearth

insert

Place within another thing

damper · flue · firebrick · mantel · chimney · woodstove · pellet stove · cast iron · glass door · air intake

Categories
Opposites
thermal function

fireboxicebox

Cold food storage chest

freezer · cold storage · cryogenic chamber · cold room · cooler

locomotive/boiler component function

fireboxsmokestack

Industrial exhaust column

chimney · condenser · exhaust pipe · flue · exhaust

Family

fireball, fireboxes

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G