Noun: stoker stow-ku(r)
- 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"
- A mechanical device for stoking a furnace
"The automatic stoker fed coal into the furnace"
- 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