Stoker

Definitions

1. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
2. A surname.
3. A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
4. A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
5. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.

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Examples

“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.”

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