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Stoker

[ UK /stˈə‍ʊkɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈstoʊkɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)

How To Use Stoker In A Sentence

  • Several methods of reducing fly ash and soot are discussed for spreader stoker boiler in this paper. The engineering application effects show that these methods are valid.
  • The plot, pure hokum, revolves around a whirlwind waterfront romance between Bill Roberts (Bancroft again), an independent-minded stoker, and Mae (Betty Compson), the ostensibly weak woman he just rescued from suicide. Master of the Mise-en-Scène
  • Watson racked up a total of $77,147 during competition after wagering $17,973 that "Who is Bram Stoker?" was the correct question to the clue: "William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' inspired this author's most famous novel. On 'Jeopardy!,' rise of the machine: Computer competitor rakes in ratings
  • Stokers had to keep the furnaces fed with coal, while greasers kept the machinery parts well oiled.
  • an automated stoker
  • He had brought with him the bo'sun and the carpenter, his own mate, the bo'sun's mate and the carpenter's mate, four P. O.'s, the sergeant of Marines, a few leading stokers and half-a-dozen hands; fifty fathoms of hawser-laid four-inch white rope; six stout stakes (ash); bags, canvas, twelve (one to collect the tickets earned by each division); and one thousand eight hundred tickets, numbered from one to one thousand eight hundred. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919
  • He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920, and moved to Harlem where he worked variously as a stoker, an elevator operator, a laundryman and a ship painter.
  • Dracula, which co-stars Justine Waddell, Jonny Lee Miller and Christopher Plummer, brings Bram Stoker's legend forward to the year 2000.
  • The engineer said he had heard they were intended for stokers but these were never applied.
  • At the same time as the monster a man in a blue blouse and with a brandy-nose had come to the farm; he called himself "stoker," and distinguished himself by constantly eating onions; he said that this was good for the digestion. Dame Care
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