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• stoker
  stoker

  noun

  a person or thing that stokes.
• Stoker
  Stoker

  noun

  Bram Abraham Stoker, 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.

stoker

¹ American  

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /

noun

1. a person or thing that stokes.

2. a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.

3. Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.

4. a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.

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Stoker ² American  

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /

noun

1. Bram Abraham Stoker, 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.

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Stoker ¹ British  

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

1. Bram, original name Abraham Stoker. 1847–1912, Irish novelist, author of Dracula (1897)

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stoker ² British  

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

1. a person employed to tend a furnace, as on a steamship

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Other Word Forms

• stokerless
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of stoker

1650–60; < Dutch, equivalent to stok ( en ) to stoke ¹ + -er -er ¹

Example Sentences

“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

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

The rider in front is called the pilot; the rear is referred to as the stoker.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 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