stoker
noun
a person or thing that stokes.
stoker
1 American
[stoh-ker]
/ ˈstoʊ kər /
noun
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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
Example Sentences
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This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Instead, he funded his passage by working as a stoker on a ship, before making contact with some friends in Belfast who transported him to Omagh.
From BBC ● May 24, 2021
A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
‘Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris-Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn’t awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
"Eddie did look a bit tired and didn't quite look the same manager as when he started," Stoker said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Guimaraes has a deep bond with Newcastle supporters, which has evidently driven him on, as season ticket holder Adam Stoker explained.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
None of this stopped the Stoker estate from suing and demanding the destruction of all prints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Orlok’s mustachioed visage could be seen as a nod to the real Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Stoker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
“Back to your seats, please,” Mr. Stoker says.
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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