From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstokerstok‧er /ˈstəʊkə $ ˈstoʊkər/ noun [countable] BOTTWsomeone whose job is to put coal or other fuel on a fire or into a furnace, for example on a steamship or a steam train
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stoker• He had sailed before the mast in a windjammer, and then become a stoker.• This problem is the humanistic analogue of the problem of the stoker on the electric train. 