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stove poker

stove poker

6.7
A metal rod with a handle for moving burning wood in a stove or fireplace
  • noun
  • /stoʊv ˈpoʊkər/
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  • The fireplace was full of ashes, so she used a stove poker to stir the coals.

Examples

  • He grabbed the stove poker to rearrange the logs for better airflow.

  • After the fire started to dim, she used the stove poker to reignite the flames.

  • p74 Mr. Archy shot for the stove poker.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

poker
vsstove poker
42 4.2

A metal rod with a handle for moving logs in a fire

is focused on stirring and rearranging burning material rather than broad tools
salamander
vsstove poker
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A long metal rod with a handle used to move and tend a fire

is shorter and used to stir or rearrange burning material
fire iron
vsstove poker
1 6.0

A metal tool like a poker or tongs that you use to tend a fire in a fireplace

is a single metal rod for stirring and rearranging burning material
fire hook
vsstove poker
7.7

A metal rod with a handle used to move burning logs or stir hot embers

is mainly for stirring and moving burning pieces, not general tools

Surface Forms

stove poker singular
stove pokers plural

Morphology

stove + poker

The compound simply names a poker associated with a stove, so a learner who knows 'stove' (heating appliance) and 'poker' (a metal rod for adjusting coals/logs) can easily infer it refers to a poker used with a stove. This straightforward noun–noun compositional pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically regular, making the expression immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.

Etymology

Stove poker comes from the two parts stove and poker; people used a long metal rod to 'poke' the fire in a stove, moving wood or coals to keep the flames burning. That's why the name means a metal rod for stirring or moving burning material.