stoker

/ˈstoʊkɚ/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).

stoker means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.

stoker is pronounced /ˈstoʊkɚ/.

name

A surname.

noun

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.“For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball.”
A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.“As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works.”
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.