stoker

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke +‎ -er. More at stoke.

Noun

stoker (plural stokers)

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

Synonyms

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, poker

See also

• fireman

Translations

person who stokes

• Armenian: հնոցապան (hy) (hnocʿapan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司爐 (zh), 司炉 (zh) (sīlú)

• Czech: topič (cs) m
• Dutch: stoker (nl) m
• Esperanto: hejtisto
• Finnish: lämmittäjä (fi)
• French: chauffeur (fr) m

• German: Heizer (de) m
• Hungarian: fűtő (hu)
• Japanese: 火夫 (ja) (かふ, kafu), 火手 (かしゅ, kashu)
• Portuguese: foguista m, f, fornalheiro m
• Russian: кочега́р (ru) m (kočegár), истопни́к (ru) m (istopník)
• Serbo-Croatian: ložač (sh) m, ложач m
• Spanish: fogonero (es), atizador (es)

poker — see poker

Anagrams

• Kortes, Koster, stroke, tokers, trokes