Stoker

Word STOKER
Character 6
Hyphenation stok er
Pronunciations /ˈstəʊkə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Stoker"

What do we mean by stoker?

One who is employed to feed fuel to and tend a furnace, as on a steam locomotive or a steamship. noun

A mechanical device for feeding coal to a furnace. noun

One who attends to and maintains suitable combustion in a furnace, especially a furnace used in generating steam, as on a locomotive or steamship; a fireman. noun

A poker. noun

One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire. noun

A fire poker. noun

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers noun

A device for stoking a fire; a poker noun

A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically noun

A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle noun

Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) noun

A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) noun

A mechanical device for stoking a furnace noun

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers.

A device for stoking a fire; a poker.

A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically.

A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Stoker

The word "stoker" in example sentences

(I cannot see why one should be called stoker and the other fireman, for they both have to keep the fire going and the steam up). ❋ W. J. Connor (N/A)

One stoker called another stoker a weird name, and the latter, righteously inflamed at it, smote his mate with an iron shovel, and the man fell headlong over a heap of coal which crashed gently, while piece after piece rattled down upon the deck. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Our driver and fireman ( "stoker," perhaps you call the latter) are very great men. ❋ Various (N/A)

At the same time as the monster a man in a blue blouse and with a brandy-nose had come to the farm; he called himself "stoker," and distinguished himself by constantly eating onions; he said that this was good for the digestion. ❋ Hermann Sudermann (1892)

The ensuing violence results in an intervention by the National Guard and the dispatching by the NAACP of Golden Frinks (Afemo Omilami), a self-described "stoker" who organizes a peaceful march to the governor's office 50 miles away in which thousands eventually join. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Five Best Werewolf Movies of All Time anne rice, bram stoker, dracula, interview with a vampire, lost boys, nosferatu, underworld, vampires ❋ Unknown (2009)

Best Vampire Movies of All Time bram stoker, dracula, dracula: dead and loving it, george hamilton, gerard butler, jack palance, leslie nielsen, mel brooks, rutgar hauer ❋ Unknown (2010)

What neither Chris nor Mat, a shipwrecked Irish stoker who falls instantly in love with her, realise is that Anna has been working as a Minnesota prostitute. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Handsome young Dickie Attenbrough plays a claustrophobic stoker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The plot, pure hokum, revolves around a whirlwind waterfront romance between Bill Roberts (Bancroft again), an independent-minded stoker, and Mae (Betty Compson), the ostensibly weak woman he just rescued from suicide. ❋ David Mermelstein (2011)

Those two guys humping on the bike should try the jet bike, although the stoker is going to have a hard time... so to speak... without a fire-retardent pants yabbies' protectant in olive drab colorway. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Haukelid and his men stole on board, observed only by a stoker who said nothing. ❋ Gary Kamiya (2010)

Happily, there were no fatalities, though the deckhand and stoker had suffered minor burns, but it was no less a tragedy for all that. ❋ Thomas Steinbeck (2010)

Only three men were necessary: a helmsman, a stoker, and a deckhand. ❋ Thomas Steinbeck (2010)

Collecting some dry underwear from the fire stoker rack beside the cheminée, * and reaching for some chaussettes sèches* -- slung over the candelabra, I notice the look on my husband's face ... but I am quick to put him back in his place; after all, HE is the oddball! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Considering last year's line-up felt a little "meh," today's Virgin Mobile FreeFest line-up announcement was a super-stoker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He returned to America to work in a jute mill, became a hobo, was thrown into prison, became a gold prospector in the Yukon, a stoker on a steamship and a student at the University of California. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But while Portlanders eschew waste and excess when it comes to beverage consumption, they are more than happy to ride exotic cargo bikes with $125 headsets, hydraulic brakes, and crabon fiber stoker bars: ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

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