stoker
noun
stokĀ·er
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Definition of stoker
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: one employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel
specifically
: one that tends a marine steam boiler
2
: a machine for feeding a fire
Stoker
biographical name
StoĀ·ker
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Definition of Stoker (Entry 2 of 2)
Bram 1847ā1912 Irish writer
Examples of stoker in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The stokers will be piloted by four equally accomplished endurance athletes. — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Blind cycling team to ride across country," 16 June 2018 And when the pipelined bounty of the 1920sā natural gas boom spread from New Mexico and Texas across the West, homeowners switched en masse to gas for cooking and heating, saying goodbye to stokers, clinkers and coalās pervasive, greasy film. — Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, "Trump Is Big Coalās Last Gasp," 21 Sep. 2017 Preoccupied with fears of a communist invasion, the John Birch Society came to prominence in the 1960s, following the death of quintessential communist fear stoker Sen. Joseph McCarthy. — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan has long been fertile ground for the far right," 17 Aug. 2017 In Eugene OāNeillās 1922 play, one of his more directly political works, Robert (Yank) Smith (the stupendous Bobby Cannavale) is a tough-talking, anti-intellectualizing stoker who shovels coal in the boiler room of a ship heading for New York. — The New Yorker, "The Hairy Ape," 8 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stoker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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