stoker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
‘Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris-Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn’t awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.