stoker
noun
- a person who tends a furnace, specif. of a steam boiler, as, esp. formerly, on a ship, locomotive, etc.
- a mechanical device that stokes a furnace
See stoker in American Heritage Dictionary 4
stok·er
noun- One who is employed to feed fuel to and tend a furnace, as on a steam locomotive or a steamship.
- A mechanical device for feeding coal to a furnace.
Origin: Dutch, from stoken, to stoke, from Middle Dutch stōken, to poke.
Sto·ker
British writer of the gothic horror novel Dracula (1897).
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