{i} one who tends a furnace, one who provides a furnace with fuel; mechanical device which provides a furnace with coal or other solid fuel
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)
an Irish writer whose most famous work is his book Dracula (1847-1912). orig. Abraham Stoker born Nov. 8, 1847, Dublin, Ire. died April 20, 1912, London, Eng. Irish writer. Though bedridden until he was seven years old, Stoker later became an outstanding athlete. He was in the civil service for 10 years and the manager of actor Henry Irving for 27 years, writing letters for his employer and accompanying him on tours. During this period he began writing fiction; his masterpiece was the immensely successful gothic novel Dracula (1897). Derived from vampire legends, the tale became the basis for a whole genre of literature and film. None of his other works, including The Lair of the White Worm (1911), approached its popularity or quality