Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1. 
 stir up or tend; 
 of a fire; 
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stoke \Stoke\, v. t. [OE. stoken, fr. D. stoken, fr. stok a
   stick (cf. OF. estoquier to thrust, stab; of Teutonic origin,
   and akin to D. stok). See Stock.]
   1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.]
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            Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire
      of a furnace, boiler, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stoke \Stoke\, v. i.
   To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of
   furnaces, steamers, etc.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stoke
    v 1: stir up or tend; of a fire
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "stoke":
   bank, burn, chafe, coal, conflagrate, cook, detonate,
   electric-heat, enkindle, explode, fan the flame, feed,
   feed the fire, fill up, fire, fire up, foment, fuel, fuel up,
   fulminate, gas-heat, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat,
   hot-water-heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, mull,
   oil, overheat, preheat, recook, refuel, reheat, rekindle, relight,
   relume, set fire to, set on fire, steam, stir the fire,
   stoke the fire, stoke up, strike a light, superheat, tepefy,
   top off, torch, touch off, warm, warm over, warm up