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Tend to a fire
Answer for the clue "Tend to a fire ", 5 letters:
stoke
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Word definitions for stoke in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoke \Stoke\, v. i. To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace or furnace," back-formation from stoker (1650s); ultimately from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok- "pierce, prick," ...
Usage examples of stoke.
And even later, after an exhilarating spin in the country, he arrived safe and blithesome at his well-appointed rooms in the Hotel Fulton, ready to remove with good soap and pure aqua the stains of mart and road before calling on Miss Bettina Stokes.
But they were all bitchen bros permanently stoked on each other, brewski, and ripping surf.
Two troopers, one a pock-faced veteran who had spent his years raising malingering to a substantial art, the other a bull with a broad, flat nose smashed in a tavern brawl, had stoked up a fire for drinks, as troopers will do given any short stop.
Stadlbraun got things stoked up because Peaty had always creeped her out.
Park was sitting on his heels in front of the hearth and stoking the fire.
Turning on his heel, he squatted down in front of the fireplace and began stoking the fire.
Park went about stoking up the fires in the stoves and the bedroom fireplace until he returned with a glass of whiskey in one hand and a blanket in the other.
Stokes, and was duly entered in Trinity College as a subsizar, which means that he was admitted on suspicion.
English to understand the torrent of undeleted expletives that Stoke was hurling in her direction.
A short, silent black man was stoking the fire, while a couple of the teenagers rifled the packs for food.
Bellis could imagine their frantic work gauging aetherial currents, stoking and conjuring.
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Stokes had worked the Bichon case when Pam was alive and claiming Renard was stalking her.
But they were all bitchen bros permanently stoked on each other, brewski, and ripping surf.
And these were the furled, attenuated blooms of winter, born out of due season and nurtured in stoked warmth, like the delicate children of kings, and emanating a faint reluctant scent like the querulous sweet smile of an invalid.