stokers
- plural of stoker.
Example Sentences
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Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stokers, engineers, mechanics worked almost naked, in heat like that of a furnace.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard
Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review, and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers—Highways and Byways, and wrote a Life of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Speeches were afterward made by Mr. Feray d'Essonnes, president of the Syndical Chamber of Conductors, Enginemen, and Stokers, and by Prof. Comberousse, of the Central School, who broadly outlined the life of Papin.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
Stokers and passengers jump over; I never knew a sailor to do that, drunk or sober.
From Man Overboard! by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
