n. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers
n. A device for stoking a fire; a poker
n. A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically
n. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
n. A fire poker.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who attends to and maintains suitable combustion in a furnace, especially a furnace used in generating steam, as on a locomotive or steamship; a fireman.
n. A poker.
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n. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
n. a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
n. a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
Word Usage
"(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)."