Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To stir up and feed (a fire or furnace).
- v. To feed fuel to and tend the fire of (a furnace).
- v. To feed or tend a furnace or fire.
- v. Informal To eat steadily and in large quantities.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pierce; stick; thrust.
- To poke, stir up, and maintain the fire in (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler for the generation of steam for an engine); supply with fuel; trim and maintain combustion in.
- To attend to and supply a furnace with fuel; act as a stoker or fireman.
Wiktionary
- v. To stir up and feed, especially, a fire or furnace.
- n. A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To stick; to thrust; to stab.
- v. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
- v. To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- v. stir up or tend; of a fire
Etymologies
- Back-formation from stoker.
Examples
“In what he calls a stoke of luck, Gore purchased the rare car off eBay.”
“The dragon kiln has 17 holes throughout the entire length of its body called stoke holes which the kiln operator uses during firing for observation and feeding of wood fuel.”
“Who remembers that team called stoke that beat us 2-0.”
“So he's trying to kind of stoke the passion among Iowa voters.”
“COLLINS: And so, Nic, the presence of the government's army or law enforcement, the folks that we are seeing out there, to try to put an end to this, is that helping to kind of stoke the fire?”
“One angry Tory MP accused the Liberal Democrat leader - who is in charge of the Government constitutional reform programme - of trying to "stoke" the vote in favour of introducing the alternative vote (AV) system for Westminster elections.”
“They routinely tell individuals to snack in order to maintain their blood sugar levels and to "stoke" their metabolism with fuel.”
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“You are stoked now! stoke, meaning like a chimney fire.”
“He thought the elites looked down at him because he had come up the hard way, and with his speechwriter Pat Buchanan he knew how to stoke the resentments in Middle America.”
“Any increase in energy prices, which the government subsidizes, could also stoke inflation in 2012.”
Lists
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jaydrox's list
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jennarenn Yo mama. Sep 25, 2008
bilby The Potters. Sep 24, 2008
vanishedone According to dictionary.com this can be 'a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter'. Sep 24, 2008