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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STOKE, is the same word as stock, differently applied. It is found in many English names of towns.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: stir up or tend; of a fire

Merriam Webster's

verb (stoked; stoking) Etymology: Dutch stoken; akin to Middle Dutch stuken to push Date: 1683 transitive verb 1. to poke or stir up (as a fire) ; supply with fuel 2. to feed abundantly 3. to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of <limiting the number of cars available…will help stoke demand for the car — Keith Naughton> intransitive verb to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) ; supply a furnace with fuel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (often foll. by up) 1 a tr. feed and tend (a fire or furnace etc.). b intr. act as a stoker. 2 intr. colloq. consume food, esp. steadily and in large quantities. Etymology: back-form. f. STOKER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stoke Stoke, v. t. [OE. stoken, fr. D. stoken, fr. stok a stick (cf. OF. estoquier to thrust, stab; of Teutonic origin, and akin to D. stok). See Stock.] 1. To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.] Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting. --Chaucer. 2. To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stoke Stoke, v. i. To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stokes, stoking, stoked) 1. If you stoke a fire, you add coal or wood to it to keep it burning. She was stoking the stove with sticks of maple. VERB: V n • Stoke up means the same as stoke. He stoked up the fire in the hearth. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 2. If you stoke something such as a feeling, you cause it to be felt more strongly. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war. VERB: V n • Stoke up means the same as stoke. He has sent his proposals in the hope of stoking up interest for the idea. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

bank, burn, chafe, coal, conflagrate, cook, detonate, electric-heat, enkindle, explode, fan the flame, feed, feed the fire, fill up, fire, fire up, foment, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, gas-heat, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, mull, oil, overheat, preheat, recook, refuel, reheat, rekindle, relight, relume, set fire to, set on fire, steam, stir the fire, stoke the fire, stoke up, strike a light, superheat, tepefy, top off, torch, touch off, warm, warm over, warm up