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Stoker   /stˈoʊkər/   Listen
Stoker

noun
1.
Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912).  Synonyms: Abraham Stoker, Bram Stoker.
2.
A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship).  Synonym: fireman.
3.
A mechanical device for stoking a furnace.



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"Stoker" Quotes from Famous Books



... there," said one of the visitors, pointing to the air-tube leading to the stoker. "Is that their foghorn I've ...
— The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair - Their Observations and Triumphs • Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')
... Joe Stoker, rear brakeman on the —— accommodation train, was exceedingly popular with all the railroad men. The passengers liked him, too, for he was eager to please and always ready to answer questions. But he did ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... have the carriages, For pleasure trips to ride; The Milford it shall run us, And Henry lad shall drive; There's also Jack the stoker, So handy and so free, He lives now at Llandiman, A buxom lad ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine
... kind-hearted, simple-minded Stoker serves as a foil to the villains, the kidnapping Badawi and Ghazban the detestable negro. The fortunes of the family are interrupted by two episodes, both equally remarkable. Taj al-Muluk[FN287] is the model lover whom no difficulties or dangers can daunt. In Aziz and Azizah ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... stratagem, and flurried the sentries to such an extent that I got clear away. I rather fancy one or two others got off, too, but I don't know. I got into a rather disagreeable tramp steamer, and volunteered as stoker. It's so difficult to get stokers in the tropics that the captain took his risks and kept me. I must say I was sorry afterwards that I ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham


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