stoker
/ˈstoʊkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
noun
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball."
- "He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?"
- "As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works."
Etymology
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”)).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstoʊkɚ/
- British English: /ˈstəʊkə/