stoke

IPA: stˈoʊk

An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond.
(physics) Misconstruction of stokes (unit of kinematic viscosity) [A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s]
Short for Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England. [The largest city in Staffordshire, England; also known as Stoke.]

(transitive, obsolete) To poke, pierce, thrust.
(transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
(transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
(intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Examples of "stoke" in Sentences

Who remembers that team called stoke that beat us 2-0.
You are stoked now! stoke, meaning like a chimney fire.
So he's trying to kind of stoke the passion among Iowa voters.
In what he calls a stoke of luck, Gore purchased the rare car off eBay.
They routinely tell individuals to snack in order to maintain their blood sugar levels and to "stoke" their metabolism with fuel.
He thought the elites looked down at him because he had come up the hard way, and with his speechwriter Pat Buchanan he knew how to stoke the resentments in Middle America.
The dragon kiln has 17 holes throughout the entire length of its body called stoke holes which the kiln operator uses during firing for observation and feeding of wood fuel.
COLLINS: And so, Nic, the presence of the government's army or law enforcement, the folks that we are seeing out there, to try to put an end to this, is that helping to kind of stoke the fire?
One angry Tory MP accused the Liberal Democrat leader - who is in charge of the Government constitutional reform programme - of trying to "stoke" the vote in favour of introducing the alternative vote (AV) system for Westminster elections.