In former times a stoker was a person whose job was to stoke fires, especially on a ship or a steam train. someone whose job is to put coal or other fuel on a fire or into a furnace, for example on a steamship or a steam train
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire
a mechanical device for stoking a furnace a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)