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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stok•er (stō′kər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that stokes.
- a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, esp. a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
- British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]the fireman on a locomotive.
- Energya mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.
- Dutch, equivalent. to stok(en) to stoke1 + -er -er1
- 1650–60
Bram (bram)USA pronunciation (Abraham Stoker), 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: stoker /ˈstəʊkə/ n - a person employed to tend a furnace, as on a steamship
Etymology: 17th Century: from Dutch, from stoken to stoke stoke1 /stoʊk/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], stoked, stok•ing. - to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- Energyto tend the fire of (a furnace);
supply with fuel.
stok•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stoke1 (stōk),USA pronunciation v., stoked, stok•ing.
v.t. - to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- Energyto tend the fire of (a furnace, esp. one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine);
supply with fuel.
v.i. - to shake up the coals of a fire.
- Energyto tend a fire or furnace.
- Dutch stoken to feed or stock a fire; see stock
- 1675–85
- Physicsa unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Stoker /ˈstəʊkə/ n - Bram, original name Abraham Stoker. 1847–1912, Irish novelist, author of Dracula (1897)
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