Synonyms:
stoker
Meaning: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
Synonyms:
stoker, fireman
Meaning: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
Synonyms:
Stoker, Bram_Stoker, Abraham_Stoker
Meaning: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
Usage examples
The stoking difficulties on large ocean-going steamers have become so acute that they now suggest the conclusion that, notwithstanding repeated failures, a really effective mechanical stoker will be so imperatively called for as to enforce the adoption of any reasonably good device.
As soon as the mechanical fuel-shifter has been adopted, and the boilers have been properly insulated in order to prevent the overheating of the stoke-hole, the stoker will be raised to the rank of a secondary engineer, and his work will cease to be looked upon as in any sense degrading.