stoker
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This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
After initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.
From BBC ● May 11, 2023
A large pile of stoker coal was stored in the back of a truck, ready to be sold.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
In 1939, while working as an editor at a socialist magazine in Durban, he found work as a stoker abroad a freighter and made his way to London.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2017
His father worked as a stoker at the factory, barely earning enough to make ends meet.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Coal fired boilers fuelled by stokers kept the heat up for the tropical plants.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
Several guide dogs sit by their owners, or wait for their return, while captains, stokers and volunteers hang out and socialize.
From Salon ● May 29, 2017
On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2016
This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
The hold was in the very front of the ship, past the mail sorting room and the cabins where the stokers and firemen stayed.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
