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/ˈstoʊkɚ/ · noun
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 bouncing ball.
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.
Use stoker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stoker means A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers..
Common synonyms include firestick, poker, fireman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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