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Webster 1913 Edition

Stoker

Stok′er

,
Noun.
[D. See
Stoke
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
2.
A fire poker.
[R.]
C. Richardson (Dict.).

Webster 1828 Edition

Stoker

STOKE

, STOKER,
Noun.
One who looks after the fire in a brew-house. [Local or technical.]

Definition 2024

stoker

stoker

English

Noun

stoker ‎(plural stokers)

  1. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers
  2. A device for stoking a fire; a poker
  3. A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically
  4. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle

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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.

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