stok·er /ˈstokɚ/
司爐,供煤機,自動添煤裝置
Stok·er n.
1. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
2. A fire poker. [R.]
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Stoker
n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
[syn: Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker]
2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
steamship) [syn: fireman]
3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace