STOKER Definition & Meaning

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stoker

[ stoh-ker ]

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noun

a person or thing that stokes. stoke.
a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.
a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.

Stoker

[ stoh-ker ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Bram [bram] Abraham Stoker, 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.

stoker

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noun

a person employed to tend a furnace, as on a steamship

Stoker

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noun

StokerBram18471912MIrishWRITING: novelist Bram, original name Abraham Stoker. 1847–1912, Irish novelist, author of Dracula (1897)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of stoker¹

1650–60; < Dutch, equivalent to stok ( en ) to stoke ¹ + -er -er ¹

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of stoker¹

C17: from Dutch, from stoken to stoke

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“They run up the starboard side of the ship, up two decks, through the stokers’ quarters, and into their dining hall.

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After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.

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Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.

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His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.

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The party and its allies spent millions in the primary promoting GOP state Sen. Ron Hanks, a stoker on the Trump crazy train, in hopes of landing him as Bennet’s opponent.

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