What is "stokers"

Usage examples of "stokers".

The only reference in any of the indexes was to the fires in the boilers and the stokers working to put them out before the water reached them and caused an explosion.

The Bo'sun looked at the stokers and wondered briefly what they were doing on deck, but only very briefly: they were almost certainly doing a seaman's job because there were very few seamen left to do it.

The stokers worked four hours at a time, so twelve of us were fighting flames from the day we put out of Southampton until we hit the iceberg.

The sailors fought with their fists and many of them took the stoke bars and shovels from the stokers and used them to beat back the others.

So one of the stokers shouted: `Someone find the pin which releases the boat from the ropes and pull it up!

I sent for the chief engineer, told him to put on another watch of stokers and make all speed for the Titanic.

As steam power came off the huge driving shaft and the engine began to slow, the noise lessened and the stokers leaned gratefully on their shovels, their chests gulping air heavy with coal dust and wrung out the towels they wore about their necks.

One of the stokers had turned his back to the gleaming mouths of the furnaces and looked upward, as if to relieve his aching eyes.

Some cells surviving for hours, the liver still metabolizing, the bones still manufacturing marrow like stokers down below in the engine room still working to fire the boilers, to keep the dynamos going, unaware that the ship has already foundered.

And firemen, stokers, engineers, trimmers, working to keep the boilers going and the dynamos running and the wireless working, the lights on.