stoker

Example Sentences

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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

The rider in front is called the pilot; the rear is referred to as the stoker.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2021

I want to transfer the contents of the former to the latter in a succession of quick, mindless moves, like a stoker shoveling coal into the boiler of a steam locomotive.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2017

‘Jules-Albert finished first in the Paris-Rouen motorcar race back in 1895, but he wasn’t awarded the prize because his steam car used a stoker.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan