Definitions
a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
Word origin
From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke.
Used in a sentence
“He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?”
“As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Furnace feeder”6 letters
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