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English

Noun

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers
A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle

Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See Stoke, v. t.]
1. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with
fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a
marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a
fire.
[1913 Webster]

2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
[1913 Webster]

WordNet stoker
n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
[syn: Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker]
2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
steamship) [syn: fireman]
3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

Moby Dictionary
baggage man , bakehead , black gang , boilerman , brakeman , brakie ,
bungs , butcher , cabin boy , chips , commissary steward , complement ,
conductor , deckhand , deckie , dispatcher , fireman , footplate man ,
guard , gun loader , gunner , hand , hospital steward ,
landing signalman , lineman , mail orderly , navigator , oiler , porter ,
purser , radio operator , railroad man , railroader , redcap ,
roustabout , smoke agent , snip , snips , sparks , stationmaster ,
steward , stewardess , switchman , torpedoman , trainboy , trainman ,
trainmaster , watch , yardman , yardmaster , yeoman