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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To stir up and feed (a fire or furnace).
  2. v. To feed fuel to and tend the fire of (a furnace).
  3. v. To feed or tend a furnace or fire.
  4. v. Informal To eat steadily and in large quantities.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pierce; stick; thrust.
  2. 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.
  3. To attend to and supply a furnace with fuel; act as a stoker or fireman.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To pierce; poke; thrust.
  2. v. transitive To stir up and feed, especially, a fire or furnace.
  3. v. intransitive To attend to and supply a furnace with fuel; act as a stoker or fireman.
  4. n. physics 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

  1. v. obsolete To stick; to thrust; to stab.
  2. v. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
  3. v. To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. stir up or tend; of a fire

Etymologies

  1. From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from Dutch stoken ("to kindle a fire, incite, instigate"), from Middle Dutch stoken ("to thrust, poke"), from stock ("stick, stock, rapier"), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above. (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from stoker. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. stick
  1. thrust
  1. stab

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. tend

rhymes (38)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Baroque
  2. Coke
  3. Koch
  4. Polk
  5. Wouk
  6. awoke
  7. baroque
  1. bloke
  2. boak
  3. broke
  4. choke
  5. cloak
  6. cloke
  7. coke
  1. croak
  2. doke
  3. evoke
  4. folk
  5. hoke
  6. invoke
  7. joke
  1. kolk
  2. misspoke
  3. moke
  4. oak
  5. poke
  6. provoke
  7. revoke
  1. roque
  2. smoak
  3. smoke
  4. soak
  5. spoke
  6. stroke
  7. woke
  1. yoak
  2. yoke
  3. yolk

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fireroom
  1. ash-shoot
  1. Newcastle
  1. cast
  1. grace stroke
  1. ash-hoist
  1. stokehold
  1. ware

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  • 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

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