stoker
Meanings
Plural: stokers
Noun
- Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
- a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke.
Scrabble Score: 10
stoker is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordstoker is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stoker is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
stoker is a valid Words With Friends word