firebox
- n a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned
- This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round.
- Sweatily, he swung the heavy scoop between the clanking tender and the hellish firebox, pausing only rarely to rest his arm on the ledge of the left-hand window.
- He then set out on a self-education program, broke railroad rules on his trips by turning the throttle over to the fireman; by the light of the firebox, he devoured books from .