Meaning

noun Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)

noun a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

noun a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

originFrom Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).

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