verb
definition
To poke, pierce, thrust.
verb
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To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
definition
(by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
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To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
noun
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The act by which something is stoked.
Examples of stoking in a Sentence
Except he hadn't planned on stoking the fire with Kisolm for what would certainly end in another war.
Female worker stoking a furnace in a gas works.
In these cases the producers are arranged outside the iron-works, glass-works, &c., in an open yard where all the manipulations of feeding them with coal, of stoking, and of removing the ashes are performed without interfering with the work inside.
Through the tears that ran down his face he could see the man stoking a nearby brazier.
The anti-tobacco zealots in the UK have been stoking up the hysteria ready for the big push on smoking in public places.
A small hole for stoking the fire was noted at the northern end of the kiln.
This means you're stoking the fire just as your blood is naturally depleted of nutrients, which could encourage more fuel to be derived from stored body fat.
The apparatus needs constant attention, since neglect in stoking would result in stopping the generation of steam, and the whole system would almost immediately cool.
A large fire-grate (ab), having a cave (c) to facilitate stoking and stepped back at (d), is bounded on one side by a fire-bridge (e); on the other side of this, separated by an air-channel (g), there is first the proper fluxing bed (h), and behind this the "back-bed "(i) for pre-heating the charge.