noun
- people who tend fires in furnaces, especially on ships or trains
Usage: plural of stoker
Examples
- The stokers worked in shifts to keep the steam engine running.
- Ship stokers had to endure extreme heat in the engine room.
- The old locomotive required two stokers to shovel coal into the firebox.
- During the voyage, the stokers maintained the boiler fires around the clock.
- Factory stokers were responsible for feeding coal into the industrial furnaces.
- The captain praised the stokers for their hard work during the storm.