stoker : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stoker	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stoker
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Stoker n Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) Synonym(s): Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) Synonym(s): stoker, fireman a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).