stoke

See also: Stoke

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: stōk, IPA^(key): /stəʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk
• enPR: stōk, IPA^(key): /stoʊk/

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English stoken, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.

Verb

1. (transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
   • (1387 – 1400) Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, Part IV.

     Ne short swerd, for to stoke with poynt bitynge, / No man ne drawe, ne bere it by his syde.

Translations

to poke, pierce

• Dutch: stoken (nl)
• French: tisonner (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: stochen (de), schüren (de)
• Korean: 쑤시다 (ko) (ssusida), 쑤석거리다 (ko) (ssuseokgeorida), 지르다 (ko) (jireuda), 찌르다 (ko) (jjireuda)

Etymology 2

From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch stoker, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from stock (“stick, stock”), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.

Verb

1. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
2. (transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
   • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 120:

     To stoke motivation and ambition, focus instead on the road ahead.

3. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Derived terms

• stokehole

Related terms

• stoker

Translations

to feed, stir up

• Catalan: atiar (ca)
• Czech: topit (cs)
• Dutch: stoken (nl)
• French: tiser (fr), tisonner (fr)
• German: stochen (de), schüren (de)
• Icelandic: kynda undir, bæta eldsneyti á
• Italian: attizzare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 쑤시다 (ko) (ssusida), 쑤석거리다 (ko) (ssuseokgeorida), 지르다 (ko) (jireuda) (fire, fiery mind, fiery sound, etc.), 찌르다 (ko) (jjireuda)
• Maori: torotoro (a fire)
• Norman: stôtchi
• Portuguese: atiçar (pt)
• Russian: топи́ть (ru) (topítʹ)
• Spanish: atizar (es)
• Welsh: tanio (cy)

Etymology 3

Noun

stoke (plural stokes)

1. (physics) Misconstruction of stokes (unit of kinematic viscosity)

Anagrams

• ketos, tokes

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Pronunciation

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Verb

stoke

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stoken