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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stoke
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
▪ You'd better tuck in, stoke up your energy supplies.
▪ Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.
▪ It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.
▪ Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
▪ So they tended to have chronic balance of payments surpluses, which stoked up inflationary pressure by maintaining high demand for goods.
▪ Valerie's absence allowed her to stoke up all sorts of guilt and self-pity and she did not want to forfeit that.
▪ It's heating up here already, yes it's stoking up here nicely for the scorch-riots of August.
▪ The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities, permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices.
■ NOUN
anger
▪ No, that would simply stoke her anger to further excess.
▪ She lay there and seethed, stoking her anger.
fire
▪ That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.
▪ And recent developments have stoked the fires of Cooperstown conversation.
▪ Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.
▪ Occasionally, the vendors stoked the fire and rearranged the coals, which glowed in the hiss of the orange flames.
▪ He stoked the fire so that it flared, then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few embarrassments are also smoldering, assiduously stoked by the Gramm camp.
▪ It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.
▪ It has stoked catastrophic business failures and contributed to increased unemployment.
▪ Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.
▪ Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.
▪ That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.
▪ Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
▪ We stoke the coals, put on a pot of potatoes, and slap five pork chops on to the grill.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoke

Stoke \Stoke\, v. t. [OE. stoken, fr. D. stoken, fr. stok a stick (cf. OF. estoquier to thrust, stab; of Teutonic origin, and akin to D. stok). See Stock.]

  1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.]

    Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.

Stoke

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
stoke

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," from PIE *steug-, extended form of root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see stick (v.)).\n

\nMeaning "to stir up, rouse" (feelings, etc.) is from 1837. Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older, originally "to eat, to feed oneself up" (1882).\n\nHaving "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march.

["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]

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Wiktionary
stoke

Etymology 1 vb. (context transitive English) To poke, pierce, thrust. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. 2 (context intransitive English) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. 3 To stick; to thrust; to stab. Etymology 3

n. (context physics English) (misspelling of stokes English) (gloss: 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)

WordNet
stoke

v. stir up or tend; of a fire

Wikipedia
Stoke

Stoke may refer to the following:

Stoke (Loudoun County, Virginia)

Stoke is a historic farm property at 23587 Stoke Farm Lane in rural Loudoun County, Virginia, near the hamlet of Aldie. Its main house, set one mile down the entrance drive, is an 1840 Greek Revival farmhouse that underwent a major transformation in 1907 in the Renaissance Revival style. The property includes an early 20th-century swimming pool, tennis court, and landscaped garden with wall fountain, in addition to a complex of farm outbuildings, many dating to the 1920s. The gardens were developed by noted horticulturalist Eleanor Truax Harris.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

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.