Crossword clues for stoker
stoker
- Dracula's creator - furnace feeder
- "Dracula" author
- Furnace feeder
- 'Dracula' author
- Van Helsing's creator
- Fire tender
- Dracula creator Bram
- Author of Dracula
- 'Dracula' writer
- Someone who fuels a furnace
- Position on a steamship
- Furnace room worker
- Furnace device
- Fireside tool
- Dracula author Bram
- Bram who wrote of bats and bites
- Boiler room worker
- "The Primrose Path" author
- "Dracula" writer Bram
- "Dracula" writer
- "Dracula" creator
- "Dracula" author Bram
- He brought Dracula to life
- Steamship worker
- Old railroad employee
- Dracula's creator: 1897
- Furnace tender
- Steamship employee
- Steamship hand
- Person firing a locomotive
- Furnace worker
- Bram who created Dracula
- A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
- O'Neill's Yank, e.g.
- Coup sees resistance dropping for author
- Furnace man
- Fireman moving right to end of line
- Author who provides fuels from gas to kerosene
- Irish author's sister inhaling smoke
- Irish author of Dracula, d. 1912
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See Stoke, v. t.]
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
A fire poker. [R.]
--C. Richardson (Dict.).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "one who maintains the fire in a furnace," agent noun from Dutch stoken "to stoke" (see stoke (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers 2 A device for stoking a fire; a poker 3 A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically 4 A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle
Wikipedia
Stoker is a surname.
Those bearing it include:
- Austin Stoker (born 1943), West Indian-born, African-American actor
- Bob Stoker, Northern Ireland politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1999-2000)
- Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Irish writer
- Don Stoker (1922-1985), English football player and manager
- Donald Stoker (historian), American military historian
- Frank Stoker (1867-1939), Irish tennis and rugby union player
- Gareth Stoker (born 1973), English former footballer
- Gerry Stoker (born 1955), British political scientist
- Gordon Stoker, pianist and singer with The Jordanaires
- Hendrik G. Stoker (1899–1993), South African Calvinist philosopher
- Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker (1885-1966), Irish Royal Navy officer and actor also known as Dacre Stoker
- James J. Stoker (1905–1992), American mathematician
- Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 1987, better known by her stage name Joss Stone, English singer, songwriter and actress
- Lewis Stoker (1910–1979), English footballer
- Mary Stoker Smith (born 1969), reporter and anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Michael Stoker (1918-2013), British physician and researcher
- Mike Stoker (born 1941), American actor
- Richard Stoker (born 1938), British composer and writer
- Robert Burdon Stoker (1859–1919), British shipping magnate and politician
- Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet (1845-1912), Irish surgeon, brother of Bram Stoker
- Will Stoker, singer and musician with the Australian band Will Stoker and the Embers
Stoker is a 2013 British-American psychological thriller- horror film written by Wentworth Miller and directed by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook in his English-language debut. It stars Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman, and was released on 1 March 2013. The film is dedicated to producer Tony Scott, who died after production.
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.