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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Stoker
    n 1: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
         [syn: Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker]
    2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or
       steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman]
    3: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stoker \Stok"er\, n. [D. See Stoke, v. t.]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A fire poker. [R.] --C. Richardson (Dict.).
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Stoker:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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