stoking

Variant of stoke

transitive verb, intransitive verb stoked, stoking

  1. to stir up and feed fuel to (a fire, furnace, etc.)
  2. to tend (a furnace, boiler, etc.)
  3. to feed or eat large quantities of food; fill (up)

Origin: back-form. < stoker

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