stoker
stoh ker
- n Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
- n a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- n a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
- The cumulative heat and emotional pressure became too much, even for a stoker like Dylan.
- Its like Jackass in Cantonese, but faster, funnier, and with a little craft up its Merlin sleeve: an efficient mood-stoker.
- The original owners carried the stoker on their books at $5,000.