stoker
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His father, a man Stamp once described as "emotionally closed down", was a ship's stoker and often away from home.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025
Built like a Eugene O’Neill coal stoker, with ears that stuck out and heavy eyebrows above kind eyes, he could read as cuddly or threatening, or even cuddly and threatening, as necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
The rider in front is called the pilot; the rear is referred to as the stoker.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2021
I want to transfer the contents of the former to the latter in a succession of quick, mindless moves, like a stoker shoveling coal into the boiler of a steam locomotive.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2017
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
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
You expect to find here the graves of drivers and sappers, troopers and stokers, havildars and sepoys.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2012
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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