Plural of stoker

Forms of stoker

Stokers in a sentence

• He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?1960, J.E. Macdonnell, Escort Ship, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1972, page 22
• For successful and efficient operation, mechanical stokers must be fed with suitable coal.1959 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Clas "9" 2-10-0s: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 556. From the entry time and again
• These boats maintain a speed of 21 knots and were built for coal firing, with mechanical stokers.1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, pages 393, 395. From the entry mechanical stoker
• The stokers, breaking into excited talk, picked him up and dragged him up the trap ladder to the deck.1960, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak. From the entry trap
• One of the stokers was disabled, the others had given in, the second engineer and the donkey-man were firing-up.1902 January–March, Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”, in George R. Halkett, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XXVI, London: Printed by…. From the entry engineer

Meaning of stoker

1. noun A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
2. noun A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
3. noun A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.

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Questions about the plural of stoker

What is the plural of stoker?

The plural of stoker is stokers.

Is stoker countable?

Stoker is a countable noun.