stoke

Definitions

1. Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.
   alt-of, misconstruction
2. Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
4. A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, now merged into Stoke and Hurleston civil parish.
5. A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
6. A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
7. An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
8. A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
9. An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.

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Examples

“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.”

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