Associations to the word «Stoker»

Wiktionary

STOKER, noun. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers
STOKER, noun. A device for stoking a fire; a poker
STOKER, noun. A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically
STOKER, noun. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle

Dictionary definition

STOKER, noun. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912).
STOKER, noun. A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship).
STOKER, noun. A mechanical device for stoking a furnace.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope