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| stokes-adams syndrome
| stokesia
| stokesia laevis
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stoker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stoker has 3 senses
- stoker(n = noun.person) abraham stoker, bram stoker - Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912); Array is a kind of author, writer
- stoker(n = noun.person) fireman - a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship); Array is a kind of jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer
- stoker(n = noun.artifact) Array - a mechanical device for stoking a furnace; Array is a kind of mechanical device
Derived form verb stoke1
Derived form verb stoke1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A fire poker. C. Richardson (Dict.). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stoker, n. a person who tends to the furnace on a steamship.
Etymology
Du. f. stoken stoke f. MDu. stoken push, rel. to STICK(1)
THESAURUS
stoker
baggage man, bakehead, black gang, boilerman, brakeman, brakie, bungs, butcher, cabin boy, chips, commissary steward, complement, conductor, deckhand, deckie, dispatcher, fireman, footplate man, guard, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, landing signalman, lineman, mail orderly, navigator, oiler, porter, purser, radio operator, railroad man, railroader, redcap, roustabout, smoke agent, snip, snips, sparks, stationmaster, steward, stewardess, switchman, torpedoman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, watch, yardman, yardmaster, yeomanROGET THESAURUS
stoker
Traveler
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.
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