Thesaurus: stoker
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.
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Definitions
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. A fire poker.
- n. a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- n. a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
- 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.).
- n:100 n. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) n. a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) n. a mechanical device for stoking a furnace