[syn: stoker, fireman]
3. a mechanical device for stoking a furnace;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See Stoke, v. t.]
1. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with
fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a
marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a
fire.
[1913 Webster]
2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Stoker
n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
[syn: Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker]
2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman]
3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace