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