stoker
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stoker¹
- /ˈstoʊkɚ/ US
- /ˈstəʊkə/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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”)).
noun stokers
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers. 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 bounci
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically. 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.
Stoker²
proper noun Stokers
- A surname.
Translations
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noun person who stokes
| Español | fogonero, atizador |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 화부 hwabu |
| 日本語 | 火夫 kafu, 火手 kashu |
| 中文 | 司爐 /司炉 sīlú |
| Português | foguista, fornalheiro |
| Français | chauffeur |
| Deutsch | Heizer |
| Italiano | fuochista |
| Ελληνικά | θερμαστής thermastís |
| Română | fochist, focar |
| Русский | кочега́р kočegár, истопни́к istopník |
| العربية | عَطَشْجِيّ ʕaṭašjiyy |
| עברית | מַסִּיק masík |
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title = {stoker},
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