stoker
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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
stoker (plural stokers)
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1960, J.E. Macdonnell, Escort Ship, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1972, page 22:
- 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?
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 278:
- 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.
- A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person who stokes
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poker — see poker
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stoker. Equivalent to stoken + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstoː.kər/, (Southern Dutch) , (Northern Dutch)
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sto‧ker
- Rhymes: -oːkər
Noun
stoker m (plural stokers, diminutive stokertje n)
- stoker, one who stokes fuel
- agitator, one who sows division or discord
- Synonyms: onruststoker, scheurmaker
French
Noun
stoker m (plural stokers)
- (rail transport) stoker (item)
Further reading
- “stoker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.