stoker
stoker
Definition
stoker (stō′kər)
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
Etymology: Du < stoken, to poke, stir up < stok, a stick: see stock
stoker
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- fire: His activities ranged from stoker fired plant and fluidized beds to supercritical boilers and gasification.
- become: When war broke out he joined the Royal Navy and became a stoker on HMS Dunedin.
Preposition: on
- ship: Jobs between periods of imprisonment include stoker on ships to Holland and South America.
Adjective modifier
- mechanical: These are fitted with Green's economizers and Meldrum's mechanical stokers.
- young: Next came my training partner Dickie Bird and a fit young stoker going through for clearance diver.
- African: They sailed after a couple of days. " Our three African stokers looked more like Red Indians!
- other: I quickly remedied this point, informing him of the whereabouts of other stokers.
Modifies a noun
- trough: This hopper fed coal from the bunker above into the underfeed stoker trough via the hatch shown.
- boiler: Emissions and residues The emissions of SO2 from a stoker boiler will depend on the sulfur content of the coal.
Noun used with modifier
- underfeed: Starting at the coal bunker the base was modified with the construction of a hopper to feed the trough of the underfeed stoker.
- boiler: This was basically a bunker to boiler stoker but with the pick up screw capable of being angled through 180 degrees.
- coal: The inspector went to Park Parade Station and there found the defendant, who was a coal stoker.
- gas: He was 37 years of age, and was a gas stoker.
- engine: On the 14th inst. , at Norton, the wife of Mr Stephen WILSON, engine stoker, of a daughter.
- child: We bought the child stoker set: smaller saddle, longer handlebar stem and crank shorteners and fitted our own child size pedals.
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