Stoke

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stoke \Stoke\, v. i.
     To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of
     furnaces, steamers, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Stoke \Stoke\, v. t. [OE. stoken, fr. D. stoken, fr. stok a
     stick (cf. OF. estoquier to thrust, stab; of Teutonic origin,
     and akin to D. stok). See {Stock}.]
     1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.]
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              Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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     2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire
        of a furnace, boiler, etc.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stoke
       v : stir up or tend; of a fire

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "stoke":
     bank, burn, chafe, coal, conflagrate, cook, detonate,
     electric-heat, enkindle, explode, fan the flame, feed,
     feed the fire, fill up, fire, fire up, foment, fuel, fuel up,
     fulminate, gas-heat, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat,
     hot-water-heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, mull,
     oil, overheat, preheat, recook, refuel, reheat, rekindle, relight,
     relume, set fire to, set on fire, steam, stir the fire,
     stoke the fire, stoke up, strike a light, superheat, tepefy,
     top off, torch, touch off, warm, warm over, warm up