1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.] Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting. Chaucer.
2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
STOKE
Stoke, v. i.
Defn: To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
STOKEHOLD
Stoke"hold`, n. (Naut.)
Defn: The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; — called also, in American ships, fireroom.
STOKEHOLE
Stoke"hole`, n.
Defn: The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.
STOKER
Stok"er, n. Etym: [D. See Stoke, v. t.]
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.