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Stoker   /stˈoʊkər/   Listen
Stoker

noun
1.
Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912).  Synonyms: Abraham Stoker, Bram Stoker.
2.
A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship).  Synonym: fireman.
3.
A mechanical device for stoking a furnace.



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"Stoker" Quotes from Famous Books



... And the kind-hearted, simple-minded Stoker serves as a foil to the villains, the kidnapping Badawi and Ghazban the detestable negro. The fortunes of the family are interrupted by two episodes, both equally remarkable. Taj al-Muluk[FN287] is the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
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... the world since you wish it," he replied quickly, his eyes twinkling mischievously as he turned to his companion who was standing at the carriage door admiring Lydia, and being himself admired by the stoker. "Mr. Cashel ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
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... Dragoons: Colonel JOHN OKEY (originally, it is said, a "drayman," then "stoker in a brewhouse at Islington," and next a "most poor chandler in Thames Street;" said also to have been "of more bulk than brains;" but certainly of late an invincible dragoon-officer); Major WILLIAMS or GWILLIAMS; ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
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... introduced into London as the cabriolet de place, from Paris in 1820 (see CARRIAGE). Other vehicles plying for hire and driven by mechanical means are included in the definition of the word "cab" in the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act 1007. The term "cab" is also applied to the driver's or stoker's shelter on a locomotive-engine. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various
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... with its serried rows of crystal glasses in artistic silver holders, there lurked on watch, now, the factotum, the thieving London-bred drug-clerk who had escaped "transportation," at Her Gracious Majesty's behest, by slipping over to New York City disguised as a stoker. ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
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