Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To stir up and feed (a fire or furnace).
- intransitive verb To feed fuel to and tend the fire of (a furnace).
- intransitive verb To feed or tend a furnace or fire.
- intransitive verb Informal To eat steadily and in large quantities.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pierce; stick; thrust.
- To poke, stir up, and maintain the fire in (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler for the generation of steam for an engine); supply with fuel; trim and maintain combustion in.
- To attend to and supply a furnace with fuel; act as a stoker or fireman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To stick; to thrust; to stab.
- transitive verb To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
- intransitive verb To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
pierce ;poke ;thrust . - verb transitive To
stir up andfeed , especially, a fire or furnace. - verb intransitive To
attend to andsupply a furnace with fuel; act as astoker orfireman . - noun physics A
unit ofkinematic viscosity equal to that of afluid with a viscosity of onepoise and adensity of onegram permillilitre
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb stir up or tend; of a fire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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In what he calls a stoke of luck, Gore purchased the rare car off eBay.
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The dragon kiln has 17 holes throughout the entire length of its body called stoke holes which the kiln operator uses during firing for observation and feeding of wood fuel.
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So he's trying to kind of stoke the passion among Iowa voters.
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So he's trying to kind of stoke the passion among Iowa voters.
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COLLINS: And so, Nic, the presence of the government's army or law enforcement, the folks that we are seeing out there, to try to put an end to this, is that helping to kind of stoke the fire?
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One angry Tory MP accused the Liberal Democrat leader - who is in charge of the Government constitutional reform programme - of trying to "stoke" the vote in favour of introducing the alternative vote (AV) system for Westminster elections.
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They routinely tell individuals to snack in order to maintain their blood sugar levels and to "stoke" their metabolism with fuel.
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You are stoked now! stoke, meaning like a chimney fire.
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He thought the elites looked down at him because he had come up the hard way, and with his speechwriter Pat Buchanan he knew how to stoke the resentments in Middle America.
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vanishedone commented on the word stoke
According to dictionary.com this can be 'a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter'.
September 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word stoke
The Potters.
September 24, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word stoke
Yo mama.
September 25, 2008