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

His father, a man Stamp once described as "emotionally closed down", was a ship's stoker and often away from home.

From BBC

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 Literature

After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.

From BBC

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

From New York Times