stoker
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- noun
- /ˈstoʊkər/
- Archaic
:
alimentador
- An efficient stoker can significantly reduce the amount of manual labor required for maintaining the furnace.
Examples
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He said good night to them, then told Edwina not to stay up too late, and went back to bed at exactly 12:03, just as far below the decks the stokers fought furiously to put out the huge ship's fires in her boilers, and water gushed across the mail room floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
Stokers shovel coal.
Fiction book (1996) -
The person in back, myself, is referred to as the "stoker."
Blog text (25) -
Through union connections, a job was finagled for my father as a stoker on a ship leaving for the United States.
Fiction book (1994) -
The stoker automatically feeds coal into the furnace to keep the fire burning steadily.
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Modern vessels often use an automated stoker to manage fuel efficiency in their engines.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stoker for a machine comes from the same word stoke 'to feed a fire'. Because the device does the job of feeding coal to the furnace automatically, it kept the same name as the person who used to do that work.