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the unsung muscle who fed coal to engines so empires could move.
means A stoker is the person whose job is to feed and tend the fire of a furnace, boiler, or steam engine, keeping it fueled and burning hot.
from From the verb "stoke," which English borrowed in the 17th century from Dutch "stoken," meaning to feed or poke a fire. The "-er" simply marks the doer, so a stoker is literally "one who stokes." The Dutch root is related to the idea of pushing or thrusting — fitting for someone shoving fuel into a roaring firebox — and the same family gives us "stick." The word came into its own with the age of steam, when ships and locomotives needed human hands to keep the flames fed.
- hellish job
- Shoveled tons of coal in 130°F engine rooms
- titanic crew
- Stokers kept her boilers roaring until the end
- dracula link
- Bram Stoker shares the name, not the shovel
- navy slang
- Royal Navy still calls engineers stokers today
- automatic kind
- Mechanical stokers replaced humans, feeding furnaces solo
bram stoker — irish author who wrote dracula in 1897, the novel that defined vampire fiction
stoker trophy — annual college football rivalry game between the university of arizona and arizona state university