stoker

[ stoh-ker ]
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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.

  1. Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.

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

Origin of stoker

1
1650–60; <Dutch, equivalent to stok(en) to stoke1 + -er-er1

Other words from stoker

  • stok·er·less, adjective

Other definitions for Stoker (2 of 2)

Stoker
[ stoh-ker ]

noun
  1. Bram [bram] /bræm/ Abraham Stoker, 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.

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How to use stoker in a sentence

  • It was told to me by Bram stoker, and it concerns a christening.

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British Dictionary definitions for stoker (1 of 2)

stoker

/ (ˈstəʊkə) /


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

Origin of stoker

1
C17: from Dutch, from stoken to stoke

British Dictionary definitions for Stoker (2 of 2)

Stoker

/ (ˈstəʊkə) /


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

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