stoker

CEFRB2

/ˈstoʊkɚ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who adds coal to a furnace or fire.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A device for stoking a fire; a poker.

Examples

  • A stoker is a person who tends the furnace on a steamship.

  • Bram Stoker was the famous author who wrote the book Dracula.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˈstəʊkə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.

  2. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

  3. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.

More examples

In context

  • The stoker shovelled coal into the furnace of the train.

  • 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?

  • 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.

Synonyms

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The blank shoveled coal into the furnace to keep the train moving.

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Origin

noun

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”)).