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stok•er
Pronunciation: (stō'kur), [key]—
n.
1. a person or thing that stokes.
2. a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, esp. a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
3. Chiefly Brit.the fireman on a locomotive.
4. a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.
Sto•ker
Pronunciation: (stō'kur), [key]—
n.
Bram Pronunciation: (bram) [key] (Abraham Stoker), 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
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