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.
- Handsome young Dickie Attenbrough plays a claustrophobic stoker.
- 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.
- Our driver and fireman ( "stoker," perhaps you call the latter) are very great men.
- (I cannot see why one should be called stoker and the other fireman, for they both have to keep the fire going and the steam up).
- Five Best Werewolf Movies of All Time anne rice, bram stoker, dracula, interview with a vampire, lost boys, nosferatu, underworld, vampires
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- The plot, pure hokum, revolves around a whirlwind waterfront romance between Bill Roberts (Bancroft again), an independent-minded stoker, and Mae (Betty Compson), the ostensibly weak woman he just rescued from suicide.
- At the same time as the monster a man in a blue blouse and with a brandy-nose had come to the farm; he called himself "stoker," and distinguished himself by constantly eating onions; he said that this was good for the digestion.
- One stoker called another stoker a weird name, and the latter, righteously inflamed at it, smote his mate with an iron shovel, and the man fell headlong over a heap of coal which crashed gently, while piece after piece rattled down upon the deck.
- The ensuing violence results in an intervention by the National Guard and the dispatching by the NAACP of Golden Frinks (Afemo Omilami), a self-described "stoker" who organizes a peaceful march to the governor's office 50 miles away in which thousands eventually join.
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