stoker
IPA: stˈoʊkɝ
noun
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
- A surname.
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Examples of "stoker" in Sentences
- The stoker was the only survivor.
- Stoker died at the age of 64 of exhaustion.
- Stoker played as an amateur for Sutton United.
- Bram Stoker was by no means the father of modern horror.
- Between 1904 and 1913 he worked as a stoker on a freighter.
- Bram Stoker worked as an unpaid theatre critic for the paper.
- A mechanical stoker was used to feed coal into the locomotive.
- A definitive modern version of the proof was given by Stoker 1968 .
- As does an interview with Austin Stoker in the Simian Scrolls fanzine.
- Dacre Stoker is the author of and the great grand nephew of Bram Stoker.