stoker
noun
a person or thing that stokes.
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stoker
1 American
[stoh-ker]
/ ˈstoʊ kər /
noun
stokers
plural
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a person or thing that stokes.
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a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
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Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.
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a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.
Stoker
2
American
[stoh-ker]
/ ˈstoʊ kər /
noun
Stoker
1
British
/ ˈstəʊkə /
noun
stoker
2
British
/ ˈstəʊkə /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stoker
1650–60; < Dutch, equivalent to stok ( en ) to stoke 1 + -er -er 1
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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
Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
“They are blind,” he thinks, “to Mahmood Hussein Mattan and all his real manifestations: the tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant Wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021
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
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
However, for Newcastle season ticket holder Adam Stoker, the manner of his subsequent departure "left a bit of a bad taste in people's mouths".
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
Another of his predecessors, Mike Stoker, was appointed during the first Trump administration but was abruptly dismissed from the job in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Stoker also said the deregulation announcement is not taking direct aim at electric vehicles, but rather is geared toward letting consumers dictate the marketplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
Mr. Stoker continues talking about math as the basis of life.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
Coal fired boilers fuelled by stokers kept the heat up for the tropical plants.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
Several guide dogs sit by their owners, or wait for their return, while captains, stokers and volunteers hang out and socialize.
From Salon ● May 29, 2017
On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2016
This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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