Meaning of STOKER
| Pronunciation: | | 'stowkur
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- [n] a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
- [n] a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- [n] Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
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| | Synonyms: | | Abraham Stoker, Bram Stoker, fireman |
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| | See Also: | | author, jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, mechanical device, writer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Stok"er\, n. [D. See {Stoke}, v. t.]
1. 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.
2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
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