Stoker

/ˈstoʊkɚ/

Synonyms for "stoker" (59 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Noun(2 words)
agitatorboiler man

Strong matches (18)

commissary stewardcomplementconductordeckhanddeckiedispatcherfiremanfootplate manguardgun loadergunnerhandhospital steward
Noun(5 words)

Related words (29)

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More general

11 entries

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5 entries
anger stokerfear stokerrumor stokership stokersteam locomotive stoker

Collocations

6 entries
boiler stokercoal stokerfurnace stokerpower plant stokership stokersteam locomotive stoker

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The whole school is here seen in epitome: the “stoker” typifies the student toiling at the forge, and in the polished engine, exhibiting both grace and power in its automatic action, we see the student’s graduating project, a machine, the joint creation of brain, eye, and hand.

Source: tatoeba (11717319)

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.

Source: wiktionary

He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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