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Furnace room worker
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stoker
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Word definitions for stoker in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had sailed before the mast in a windjammer, and then become a stoker . ▪ This problem is the humanistic analogue of the problem of the stoker on the electric train.
Usage examples of stoker.
Unfortunately, the explosion in the stokehold had killed the chief engineer and one of his juniors, while six stokers were dead and several injured.
He had started well with Blood Axe Stoker, the Wild One, and Syd Melchior, the Ambitious One, who was going right to the top and beyond.
Blood Axe Stoker and told him that the others wanted to try out the new number.
Mac Stoker was a big man in his prime, barrel chested and black haired, with blue-gray eyes and a chipped front tooth that glimmered when he smiled.
He was known from Halifax to the Huron as Sweet Mac Stoker, and once he would have made Elizabeth uneasy to the bone.
She stood with Captain Mudge, watching as Stoker worked alongside his crew, unloading bales of raw wool from the Jackdaw.
By the time Stoker came rambling down the gangplank, wiping his neck with a discarded shirt, she had taken his measure and felt composed enough.
Mac Stoker nodded, touching his forehead with one blunt and grimy finger.
Perhaps Stoker saw that he had pushed her too far, because his own expression slipped suddenly from a knowing grin to a scowl.
Captain Stoker might have been invisible for all the attention the stranger paid.
If Stoker were not breathing down her back, Elizabeth might have been able to formulate the many questions that needed to be asked--foremost and most important, how this man knew Will, and why someone of such obvious position would take on this task.
Captain Pickering cleared his throat roughly, but Elizabeth held up her hand, wanting to settle her business with Mac Stoker on her own terms.
Sweet Mac Stoker stood on the deck of his ship, hands on hips, watching them.
A handful of silver coins paid for passage, and she had left the Jackdaw so proud of herself and how she managed Mac Stoker that she never even realized that the chain she wore around her neck was gone.
Let Mac Stoker be satisfied with money for work never done andwitha single gold coin.