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Meanings of stoker in English

Portuguese
fogueiro
Catalan
fogainer
Wikidata

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

        fogueiro
        Russian
        механический углеподатчик
        Wikidata

        Device for delivering coal to locomotive firebox.

              механический углеподатчик
              Portuguese
              bram stoker
              Catalan
              bram stoker
              Spanish
              bram stoker

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

                    bram stoker
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                    Examples for "Bram Stoker"
                    Examples for "Bram Stoker"
                    1
                    The venue was the slightly tacky Bram Stoker Dracula Experience in Clontarf.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    Dracula was introduced in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    The Strain does a neat update and twist on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
                    BBC
                    4
                    We know that Conan Doyle was good friends with Bram Stoker.
                    The sherlockian
                    5
                    It was told to me by Bram Stoker, and it concerns a christening.
                    Mark Twain's Speeches
                    1
                    There is a once-classified (Top Secret, fifty-year rule) file on one Abraham Stoker of London (d. April 20th, 1912).
                    The Rhesus Chart
                    2
                    His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799-1876), from Dublin, and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818-1901), who came from Ballyshannon, a town in County Donegal.
                    Dracula Unearthed
                    Usage of stoker in English
                    1
                    The stoker cocked his revolver and held it ready for instant action.
                    The Perils of Pauline
                    2
                    This is as true of the removal of ash from a stoker.
                    Steam, Its Generation and Use
                    3
                    Of course, the same driver and stoker will not take us through.
                    The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Race...
                    4
                    First, shut off pressure to stoker engine cylinder by closing valve 6.
                    The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
                    5
                    As stated above, the best stoker will cause smoke under certain conditions.
                    Steam, Its Generation and Use
                    6
                    The stoker came back to our ship that night, without his duffelbag.
                    The Stoker and the Stars
                    7
                    I got into a rather disagreeable tramp steamer, and volunteered as stoker.
                    Hyacinth
                    8
                    There's no such thing as a stoker any more, with automatic ships.
                    The Stoker and the Stars
                    9
                    How can the duplex stoker driving engine be started, stopped, or reversed?
                    The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
                    10
                    Pander had come at the captain's order for the stoker's death certificate.
                    Atlantis
                    11
                    Another feature in stoker-fired plants is in the cleaning of fires.
                    Steam, Its Generation and Use
                    12
                    He was a stoker in the Navy during the Spanish War.
                    The Centralia Conspiracy
                    13
                    But the captain came in, and said they had to bury the stoker.
                    Atlantis
                    14
                    The stoker was coming down on one of the cargo slings.
                    The Stoker and the Stars
                    15
                    The engineer and the stoker walked off amicably side by side.
                    Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
                    16
                    The stoker received the match, and struck it on his trousers.
                    Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
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