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stoker

/stoh-ker/US // ˈstoʊ kər //UK // (ˈstəʊkə) //

锅炉,搅拌器,司炉,锅炉工

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that stokes.
    • : a laborer employed to tend and fuel a furnace, especially a furnace used to generate steam, as on a steamship.
    • : Chiefly British. the fireman on a locomotive.
    • : a mechanical device for supplying coal or other solid fuel to a furnace.

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Examples

  • But early vampire myths were a far cry from the sleek, cloaked version Stoker described.

  • Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig writes about Christianity, ethics, and policy.

  • A more macabre inspiration surfaced in 1890 when an obscure author called Bram Stoker stayed at the seaside resort of Whitby.

  • My hope with Stoker was that the audience would invest in the characters.

  • You submitted the first draft of Stoker under a pseudonym, Ted Foulke.

  • "Forget it," said the lad, brushing past the soot-begrimed stoker and hurrying in to his bath.

  • The boys had arranged that when the back of either was turned to the stoker the other should keep his eyes open.

  • "Thank'ee, Miss Eustacia," said the tired stoker, breathing more easily.

  • At that moment Percival would willingly have exchanged places with the grimiest stoker in the hold.

  • The seaman who frequents Ratcliff Highway outwardly resembles the stoker of a railway train, attired in his second best suit.