Stoker

Stoker

A stoker is "one who stokes".
*mechanical stoker - a coal-feeding device on a steam locomotive
*stoker (cone cleaning implement) - an Australian colloquial term for any slender cylindrical instrument used to clear debris from a cone.
*stoker (occupation) - a job on a coal-powered steam ship to stoke the boilers.
*stoker works - a facility where mechanical stokers were manufactured.

People

*Austin Stoker (born 1943), West-Indian born, African-American actor
*Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847–1912), Irish writer
*Frank Owen Stoker (1867-1939), Irish male tennis player
*Mary Stoker Smith, general assignment reporter and a weekend evening anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*Michael Stoker, Director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories from 1968-79
*Richard Stoker (born 1938), British composer and writer
*James Stoker (born 1989) British Internet personality, film maker, and animator...

Other

*Bram Stoker Award, recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association
*Stoker the Broker, title of a comic strip created by Henry Boltinoff
*"The Stoker", short story by Franz Kafka.


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  • Stoker — es un apellido que se puede referir a: Bram Stoker (1847–1912), escritor irlandés. Fred Stoker (1878 1943), botánico y horticultor inglés. Esta página de desambiguación cataloga artículos relacionados con el mismo título. Si llegaste aquí a… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Stoker —   [ stəʊkə], Bram, eigentlich Abraham Stoker, irischer Schriftsteller, * Dublin 8. 11. 1847, ✝ London 20. 4. 1912; Staatsbeamter und Journalist, 1878 1905 Bühnenmanager; verfasste Romane und wurde bekannt durch die häufig verfilmte… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stòker — m tehn. žarg. aparat za mehaničko nagomilavanje goriva na rešetku ognjišta …   Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika

  • Stoker — Stoker, Bram (1847 1912) an Irish writer whose most famous work is his book ↑Dracula …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Stoker — Patronyme surtout porté aux Pays Bas, présent également en Angleterre. C est une variante de Stocker (porté aussi en Allemagne et en Alsace Lorraine), apparemment un dérivé de Stock = souche, tronc d arbre. Peut désigner soit celui qui habite un… …   Noms de famille

  • stoker — 1650s, agent noun from STOKE (Cf. stoke) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • stoker — stòker m DEFINICIJA tehn. žarg. aparat za mehaničko nagomilavanje goriva na rešetku ognjišta ETIMOLOGIJA vidi stock …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • stoker — ► NOUN 1) a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam train. 2) a mechanical device for supplying fuel to a furnace. ORIGIN Dutch, from stoken stoke (a furnace) (earlier push, poke ) …   English terms dictionary

  • stoker — [stō′kər] n. [Du < stoken, to poke, stir up < stok, a stick: see STOCK] 1. a person who tends a furnace, specif. of a steam boiler, as, esp. formerly, on a ship, locomotive, etc. 2. a mechanical device that stokes a furnace …   English World dictionary

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