Stoker Meaning
/ˈstoʊkɚ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
nounA device for stoking a fire; a poker.
Sentence Examples
Bram Stoker was the famous author who wrote the book Dracula.
A stoker is a person who tends the furnace on a steamship.
The stoker shovelled coal into the furnace of the train.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ shoveled coal into the furnace to keep the train moving.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Bram ____ is the famous Irish author who is best known for writing the gothic horror novel Dracula.
Word Origin & History
From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball."
— 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
"He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?"
— 1960, J.E. Macdonnell, Escort Ship, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1972, page 22:
"As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works."
— 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 278:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ shoveled coal into the furnace to keep the train moving.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Bram ____ is the famous Irish author who is best known for writing the gothic horror novel Dracula.