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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats