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Stoke

//stoʊk// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "The main line of the L.N.W.R. passed to the west of the Potteries, and it is recorded that in August, 1846, two trains were run from Whitmore (the nearest station to Stoke) to Liverpool for the benefit of excursionists."

  2. 2
    A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, now merged into Stoke and Hurleston civil parish.
  3. 3
    A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
  4. 4
    A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
  5. 5
    An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
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  1. 6
    A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
  2. 7
    An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
  2. 2
    Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity. alt-of, misconstruction
Verb
  1. 1
    To poke, pierce, thrust. obsolete, transitive

    "Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere"

  2. 2
    To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. transitive
  3. 3
    stir up or tend; of a fire wordnet
  4. 4
    To encourage a behavior or emotion. broadly, transitive

    "Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song"

  5. 5
    To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.

Etymology 3

From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from stock (“stick, stock”), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.

Etymology 4

From Old English stoc (“place”).

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