stoker

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker

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