stoker

¹

[stoh-ker]

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.

Stoker

²

[stoh-ker]

noun

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

Stoker

¹

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

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

stoker

²

/ ˈstəʊkə /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• stokerless adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stoker¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stoker¹

C17: from Dutch, from stoken to _stoke

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

“They run up the starboard side of the ship, up two decks, through the stokers’ quarters, and into their dining hall.

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

His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.

From Literature