stoke
/stoʊk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.
name
Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
name
A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, now merged into Stoke and Hurleston civil parish.
Example Sentences
- "Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere"
- "Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song"
- "To stoke motivation and ambition, focus instead on the road ahead."
- "But, backed by a partying crowd in cowboy hats and fine voice, it was a display that only stoked belief that the Red Roses can make good on their status as tournament favourites after losing in five of the past six finals."
- "The main line of the L.N.W.R. passed to the west of the Potteries, and it is recorded that in August, 1846, two trains were run from Whitmore (the nearest station to Stoke) to Liverpool for the benefit of excursionists."
Etymology
From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stoken, *stokon, *stokōn, *stukōną, *(s)tewg-, estoquer
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stoʊk/
- British English: /stəʊk/