stoker
noun
stok·er ˈstō-kər 
1
: one employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel
specifically : one that tends a marine steam boiler
2
: a machine for feeding a fire
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The party and its allies spent millions in the primary promoting GOP state Sen. Ron Hanks, a stoker on the Trump crazy train, in hopes of landing him as Bennet’s opponent. 
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 Riggott and Rivas also started riding together as a blind stoker team that year. San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021 In October 1881 Manet received authorization from the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l’Ouest to visit the Batignolles railway depot to make studies of a driver and a stoker at work, in preparation for a painting for the Salon. Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 The driver and engine stoker were killed, and several passengers were injured. Paul Brown, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 But the number of those items is low, and NASA pitched and built SOFIA as a real working research unit, not a high-profile stoker of public imagination for its own sake. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2020 Also known as the stoker, the fireplace poker is a short, iron, fireproof rod that homeowners use to hook, rake, and push burning materials in their fireplace. The Editors, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2019 The stokers will be piloted by four equally accomplished endurance athletes. Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018 And when the pipelined bounty of the 1920s’ natural gas boom spread from New Mexico and Texas across the West, homeowners switched en masse to gas for cooking and heating, saying goodbye to stokers, clinkers and coal’s pervasive, greasy film. Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017 See More
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 Riggott and Rivas also started riding together as a blind stoker team that year. San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021 In October 1881 Manet received authorization from the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l’Ouest to visit the Batignolles railway depot to make studies of a driver and a stoker at work, in preparation for a painting for the Salon. Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 The driver and engine stoker were killed, and several passengers were injured. Paul Brown, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 But the number of those items is low, and NASA pitched and built SOFIA as a real working research unit, not a high-profile stoker of public imagination for its own sake. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2020 Also known as the stoker, the fireplace poker is a short, iron, fireproof rod that homeowners use to hook, rake, and push burning materials in their fireplace. The Editors, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2019 The stokers will be piloted by four equally accomplished endurance athletes. Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018 And when the pipelined bounty of the 1920s’ natural gas boom spread from New Mexico and Texas across the West, homeowners switched en masse to gas for cooking and heating, saying goodbye to stokers, clinkers and coal’s pervasive, greasy film. Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017 See More Word History
First Known Use
1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Biographical Definition
Stoker
biographical name
Sto·ker ˈstō-kər
Bram 1847–1912 Irish writer