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stoke

1

[ stohk ]

verb (used with object)

, stoked, stok·ing.
  1. to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
  2. to tend the fire of (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel.


verb (used without object)

, stoked, stok·ing.
  1. to shake up the coals of a fire.
  2. to tend a fire or furnace.

stoke

2

[ stohk ]

noun

, Physics.
  1. 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.

stoke

/ stəʊk /

verb

  1. to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc)
  2. tr to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stoke1

1675–85; < Dutch stoken to feed or stock a fire; stock

Origin of stoke2

After Sir G. Stokes
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stoke1

C17: back formation from stoker
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Example Sentences

That dovetails with other signs of excessive market risk-taking, stoked in part by the Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy.

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He might not have intended for his supporters to storm the building, but he recklessly stoked a throng of people who did just that — and five deaths occurred.

After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.

Fifty years after this passenger-train service debuted to connect New York and New Orleans, the arrival of the Crescent can still stoke a sense of excitement at its 31 stops, including Tuscaloosa.

Fears about our health, finances and family, all stoked by covid, have really done a number on the psyche.

Comments like that are designed to stoke the fires of fan-passion—and it works beautifully.

So much of the fear the media tries to stoke in me is fear of the oppressed underdog lashing out.

But also just as the news media plays to or even inflames such fears to drive ratings, Republicans stoke fear to drive votes.

There are people who intentionally stoke the flames of hate against our community.

For Live Another Day, did you make a concerted effort to not stoke those fires?

Then, the most care-free creature in the world, he stole down the stone passage into the wilderness of Beverly Stoke.

So Aristide, in his childlike way, found remarkable happiness in Beverly Stoke.

Tree is less vigorous than Stoke and more subject to blight.

Considerable litigation occurred at various periods with reference to the parochial possessions, especially those at Severn Stoke.

Day was breaking, but the toilers down in the depths of the stoke hole could not see the coming of the day.

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