Stoker

Quick meaning: Stoker is a noun meaning A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

Meaning

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

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?

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.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for stoker

Depending on context, synonyms include firestick, poker, fireman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fireman, grate, store, overfeed, retort, stovemaker.

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