Stoker

created by phaedrus
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:27:02

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.

2.

A fire poker.

[R.]

C. Richardson (Dict.).

 

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