stoker

¹ American  

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /

noun

1. a person or thing that stokes. stoke.

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

This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.

From Los Angeles Times

His father, a man Stamp once described as "emotionally closed down", was a ship's stoker and often away from home.

From BBC

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 Literature

After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.

From BBC

Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.

From New York Times