stoker.
A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
Meaning & usage
A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
Where this word comes from
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. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.