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Noun: stoker  stow-ku(r)
  1. A labourer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
    "The stoker shoveled coal into the furnace to keep the engine running"
     
  2. A mechanical device for stoking a furnace
    "The automatic stoker fed coal into the furnace"
Noun: Stoker
  1. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
    - Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker

Derived forms: stokers

Type of: author, jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], mechanical device, writer

Encyclopedia: Stoker, James