stokern.
/ˈstəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈstoʊkər/ 1.
a. One who feeds and tends a furnace.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with ovens or furnaces
fire beater1332
fireman1377
oven-stirrer1611
stoker1660
teaser1797
oven-man1832
coal passer1851
furnacer1853
furnaceman1883
fire beater1895
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > stoker
fire-teaser1803
stoker1846
fire-trimmer1850
1660 Col. J. Okie's Lament. (single sheet) Of a Famous Brewer my purpose is to tell,..The Noble Stoker Okey that doth the rest Excel.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Stoaker, one that looks after the Fire and some other Concerns in a Brew-house.
1707 E. Ward Barbacue Feast 9 The Stoaker..by the Help of Breath and Bellows, blew up as rare a Charcoal Fire as ever was kindl'd in Term-Time.
1798 M. Noble Lives Eng. Regicides I. 104 John Okey..was first a dray-man, then a stoaker in a brewhouse at Islington.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 323 Stoker or Fireman, a person employed to feed and trim the fires for the boilers of marine steam-engines.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. i. 4 Ten to one but he is saying—‘Not sixteen miles an hour! What the deuce is the matter with the stoker?’
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 284/2 The stoker should open the furnace-doors and push back a portion of the fuel, so as to make a space in front for the fresh supply.
b. mechanical stoker: an apparatus for automatically feeding fuel into a furnace.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > fuel-feeders
fuel-feeder1874
mechanical stoker1884
chain-grate1889
1884 R. Marsden Cotton Spinning 349 Mechanical stokers.—The question of stoking by machinery is an open one.
1893 Lightning 9 Feb. 86/2 Lancashire boilers are used, fitted with Vicar's mechanical stokers.
c. figurative.
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1737 M. Green Spleen 320 A prince's cause, a church's claim, I've known to raise a mighty flame, And priest, as stoker, very free To throw in peace and charity.
1893 T. M. Healy in Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/2 At its head was a moderate..leader, averse, except when driven to it by the ‘stokers’ of the movement, to lend his approval to extreme demands.
2. plural. Small particles of black gritty matter which escape through the funnel of a steam-engine.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > grime, soot, or coal dirt
sootc725
smitchc1330
culmc1440
coom1587
coal slack1612
grime1612
crock1657
fuliginosity1662
collow1675
smut1693
colly1708
smutch1791
brook1825
stokers1899
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > soot > specific
flint-soot1577
blacking1594
gas carbon1842
stokers1899
1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 67 These ships..provide us instead with a never-ceasing supply of ‘stokers,’ a sort of fine black hail of grit that covers everything. It is not soft like soot.
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