Stoker

3 definitions found

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

  Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See {Stoke}, v. t.]
     1. 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]


  
     2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Stoker
       n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
            [syn: {Bram Stoker}, {Abraham Stoker}]
       2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
          steamship) [syn: {fireman}]
       3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

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

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, yeoman