stoker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
    Bram Stoker; Abraham Stoker.
  2. noun a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
    fireman.
  3. noun a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

WordNet

Stok"er noun
Etymology
D. See Stoke, v. t.
Definitions
  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.
  2. A fire poker. R. C. Richardson (Dict.).

Webster 1913