stoker
noun
a person or thing that stokes.
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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Bannister said his father Sammy, a stoker mechanic who was 21-years-old at the time, sustained shrapnel wounds to his chest when HMS Amethyst came under fire.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
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
Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
Atop the cliffs behind, Georgian homes, hotels and guest houses stand in gracious testament to Whitby’s Victorian history as a popular spa town, as it was when Stoker visited in 1890.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
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
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
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
For the next 15 minutes, Mr. Stoker lectures us on being honest and working hard and having principles.
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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