Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Stoker"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Stoker
n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
[syn: {Stoker}, {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
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.