Definitions for stoker

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stoker stok·er

Spelling: [stoh-ker]

IPA: /ˈstoʊ kər/

Stoker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in stoker (ekorst).

Definitions for stoker

noun

1. a person or thing that stokes.
2. a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
3. Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.
4. a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.
5. Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.

Origin of stoker

1650-60; Dutch, equivalent to stok(en) to stoke¹ + -er -er¹

Examples for stoker

The stoker with whom I was talking was a very intelligent and very advanced individual.

I'd have you to know, Mrs. stoker, that my uncle was a banister of the law.

It was an odd thing to see—the stoker, and the Jek, who did not stand as tall.

An engineman and a stoker were leaning over the bulwark to cool themselves.

Yes, the prequel is called Uncle Charlie and I wrote it while we were negotiating the sale of stoker.

My hope with stoker was that the audience would invest in the characters.

You submitted the first draft of stoker under a pseudonym, Ted Foulke.

For two years he was a stoker—on ships of all kinds all over the world.

But early vampire myths were a far cry from the sleek, cloaked version stoker described.

I think that speaks to the core of the uncle/niece dynamic in stoker.