stoker
a person or thing that stokes.
a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.
a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.
Origin of stoker
1Other words from stoker
- stok·er·less, adjective
Other definitions for Stoker (2 of 2)
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
A more macabre inspiration surfaced in 1890 when an obscure author called Bram stoker stayed at the seaside resort of Whitby.
A British Start to the Tour de France Forces the English to Wonder: What Does Being English Mean Anymore? | Clive Irving | July 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1901, Bram stoker appended a new introduction to the Icelandic edition of Dracula, his most famous novel.
Bram stoker furnishes us with several interesting specimens of supernatural life, always tangled with other uncanny motives.
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | Dorothy ScarboroughMr. Bram stoker's plot is a bote surprise, and yet a most simple and natural story.
Bram stoker, whose too early cutting off saddened a wide circle of friends, was the Fat Boy of modern writers of fiction.
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)
/ (ˈstəʊkə) /
a person employed to tend a furnace, as on a steamship
Origin of stoker
1British Dictionary definitions for Stoker (2 of 2)
/ (ˈstəʊkə) /
Bram, original name Abraham Stoker. 1847–1912, Irish novelist, author of Dracula (1897)
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