stoker

¹ American  

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /

noun

1. a person or thing that stokes. stoke.

2. a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.

3. Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.

4. a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.

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Stoker ² American  

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /

noun

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

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Stoker ¹ British  

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

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

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stoker ² British  

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• stokerless adjective

Etymology

Origin of stoker

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

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 11, 2023

Built like a Eugene O’Neill coal stoker, with ears that stuck out and heavy eyebrows above kind eyes, he could read as cuddly or threatening, or even cuddly and threatening, as necessary.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021

The rider in front is called the pilot; the rear is referred to as the stoker.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2021

In 1939, while working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban, he found work as a stoker abroad a freighter and made his way to London.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2017

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

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti