verb
definition
To poke, pierce, thrust.
Examples of stoke in a Sentence
Stoke is on the North Staffordshire railway, 146 m.
He was one of the clerks at the Westminster Assembly, one of Cromwell's chaplains and a "trier," and held livings at Stoke Newington (1645) and St Paul's, Covent Garden (1656).
The principal public buildings in the old town of Stoke are the town hall, with assembly rooms, law library and art gallery, the market hall, the Minton memorial building, containing a school of art and science; the free library and museum, and the North Staffordshire infirmary, founded in 1815 at Etruria, and removed to its present site in 1868.
He died at Stoke Poges on the 3rd of September 1634.
These methods will only stoke the fire of resentment among the oppressed.
Healthy snacks regulate your blood sugar levels, give you a boost of energy, stoke your metabolism and help you to concentrate better.
A statue commemorates Josiah Wedgwood, born at Burslem in 1730; but other famous names in the pottery trade are more intimately connected with Stoke.
Thus Josiah Spode the second was born here in 1754, and had a great house at Penkhull, on the western outskirts of Stoke.
Disappointed of a kingdom by the success of Henry VII., he joined in Simnel's rebellion and was killed at the battle of Stoke.
On the accession of Henry VII., however, Lincoln took the oath of allegiance, but in 1487 he joined the rebellion of Lambert Simnel, and was killed at the battle of Stoke.
Private boat hire for longer holidays can be arranged at the Ashby boat hire for longer holidays can be arranged at the Ashby Boat Company in Stoke Golding.
Were you roundly booed in Stoke during the first comeback gig - why?
It is seen here arriving for crew changeover at Stoke Mandeville bound for Aylesbury on the M1 service.
R Davis, Stoke on Trent I am writing to congratulate you on the best ever potato chips in the whole wide world ever.
He was involved in the rebuilding of the Stoke Church where he was senior churchwarden and donated £ 500 to the new building.
In the autumn of 1999, Stoke was purchased by an Icelandic business consortium.
He was transferred to Stoke Royal Infirmary and underwent a front temporal craniotomy to evacuate the haematoma.
An annual dinner is held in Stoke on Trent with a guest speaker of distinction.
I am keen to find information about the dockyard at Stoke Damerel circa 1820 mainly about the residences of dockyard staff.
He then doused a valiant Stoke fight-back with a third to seal a 3-1 win for Derby.
The 3rd lock (Twyfords) is beside the former Stoke Gas Works which once had the biggest gasometer in Europe.
Back at Stoke, tho not in the same theater, where Allan Clarke had said his final goodbyes.
Search for heritage accommodation in South West England www.heritagesouthwest.co.uk Orchard House, Chew Stoke, Bristol A friendly home-from-home to use as your base.
That means no big tax give-aways, which would only stoke consumer demand and worsen the economic imbalances presently being experienced.
There will be a special commemorative dinner next month prior to the Stoke game, at which all living inductees will be in attendance.
Your work has been hugely inspirational for our children's ministry work at St Michaels Church in Stoke Gifford.
The 27-year old tough tackling midfielder has joined Leeds after being linked with clubs such as Stoke, Crystal Palace and Norwich.
On Thursday at Stoke Mandeville Stadium a local primary school was using the pool for their weekly lessons.
Stoke, currently sixth in the table, were by no means at their best.
The Reading number sixteen has previously snubbed moves to Bristol City, Preston, Stoke and the Busan Icons.
Published by Barrington Stoke for reluctant spellers of all ages.
In the country districts straw stacks were in many places overturned, Elston and Stoke districts suffered and at Southwell considerable damage was done.
The last meeting of the North Staffordshire HIV Forum took place at The Herbert Minton Building in stoke on Thursday 9th December.
Those two TV sets being turned on in the Executive Boxes really stoke up the caldron of, erm, silence.
His name was Barrington Stoke and he was the children's favorite storyteller.
Ben Petty is the other half in the double swoop on Stoke City.
Stoke Church has a fine ring of six bells, two of which are from the 17th Century.
Swimming & Swim School Swimming Stoke Mandeville Stadium offers a fully accessible 25m, 6 lane swimming pool with spectator seating for 150.
It allowed the press to stoke unwarranted public fears by reacting slowly to the scare stories.
For its inevitable effect was precisely to stoke the self-righteous flames of imperial power, and fuel their spread.
Charcoal is fed through a stoke hole into a constantly burning furnace at the side of the building to provide heat.
He would stoke up the boiler fire down a number of steps at the rear of the church.
His campaign in Village ward used leaflets full of lies in a bid to stoke up fear and resentment in the community.
But they have a stoke of luck when Pip goes to visit his cousin in a nearby Monastery.
I thought I 'd best stoke up my courage a little by getting tight at a cocktail party, earlier on in the evening.
His name was Barrington Stoke and he was the children 's favorite storyteller.
Rangers were totally dominant and Stoke only had a couple of tame headers by Hall which failed to trouble the Boro defense.
If you are in the mood for something more daring, try Great Glam, which has a dress called Stoke the Heat.
In the meantime the Six Nations (in 1768) had repudiated their sale of the region to the Susquehanna Company and had sold it to the Penns; the Penns had erected here the manors of Stoke and Sunbury, the government of Pennsylvania had commissioned Charles Stewart, Amos Ogden and others to lay out these manors, and they had arrived and taken possession of the block-house and huts at Mill Creek in January 1769.
The poet Thomas Gray, who stayed frequently at Stoke Poges in the vicinity, is enthusiastic concerning the beauty of the Beeches in a letter to Horace Walpole in 1737.