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stoker

[stoh-ker] / ˈstoʊ kər /


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This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

Ditlev later became a coal stoker, but he was frequently unemployed.

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2023

“They are blind,” he thinks, “to Mahmood Hussein Mattan and all his real manifestations: the tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant Wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father.”

From Washington Post Dec. 14, 2021

Instead, he funded his passage by working as a stoker on a ship, before making contact with some friends in Belfast who transported him to Omagh.

From BBC May 24, 2021

His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Coal fired boilers fuelled by stokers kept the heat up for the tropical plants.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2021

Several guide dogs sit by their owners, or wait for their return, while captains, stokers and volunteers hang out and socialize.

From Salon May 29, 2017

On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers.

From Washington Post Dec. 16, 2016

This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys.

From Seattle Times Apr. 5, 2012

The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis




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