stoker
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Bannister said his father Sammy, a stoker mechanic who was 21-years-old at the time, sustained shrapnel wounds to his chest when HMS Amethyst came under fire.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
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
A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
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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