stoke

[stohk]

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verb (used with object), stoked, stok·ing.

to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).

to tend the fire of (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel.

verb (used without object), stoked, stok·ing.

to shake up the coals of a fire.

to tend a fire or furnace.

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Origin of stoke

1675–85; < Dutch stoken to feed or stock a fire; see stock

stoke

[stohk]

noun Physics.

a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter.

Origin of stoke

after Sir G. Stokes

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Examples from the Web for stoke

Comments like that are designed to stoke the fires of fan-passion—and it works beautifully.
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So much of the fear the media tries to stoke in me is fear of the oppressed underdog lashing out.
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But also just as the news media plays to or even inflames such fears to drive ratings, Republicans stoke fear to drive votes.
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For Live Another Day, did you make a concerted effort to not stoke those fires?
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They are also likely to stoke the kind of sectarian mistrust from which ISIS draws its strength.
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Campbell states that, on reaching Stoke Pogis, Coke locked his daughter "in an upper chamber, of which he himself kept the key."
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck|Thomas Longueville
Since we have been at Stoke he has been much more gentle and obedient, scarcely ever cries and amuses himself on the floor.
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He told me that Grinkel had found a fresh horse in Stoke village, and so had outstripped him.
King Olaf's Kinsman|Charles Whistler
The Normans never went into the stoke, or at least very rarely.
The Serf|Guy Thorne
The excitement began to paint his cheeks, the drink to stoke wild fires in his eyes.
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British Dictionary definitions for stoke

stoke

verb

to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc)

(tr) to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for

Word Origin for stoke

C17: back formation from stoker

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Word Origin and History for stoke

stoke

1650s (implied in stoker), "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace," from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok-, variant of *stik-, *stek- "pierce, prick" (see stick (v.)). Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older:

Having "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march. ["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]

Medicine definitions for stoke

stoke

[stōk]

n.

A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter.

stoke

verb (used with object), stoked, stok·ing.

verb (used without object), stoked, stok·ing.

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