Associations to the word «Stoke»

Wiktionary

STOKE, verb. (transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
STOKE, verb. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
STOKE, verb. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
STOKE, verb. To stick; to thrust; to stab.
STOKE, noun. (physics) Misspelling of stokes. (A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre)
STOKE, proper noun. Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.

Dictionary definition

STOKE, verb. Stir up or tend; of a fire.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King