(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
(v. t.) A fire poker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irving decided they should all take a month’s holiday and then regroup; he suggested Stoker try Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast, where Irving had once run a circus.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) At weekends throughout the school holidays the site will be bringing Bram Stoker's tale to life with a cast of actors and time-travel-themed events.
(4) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(5) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(6) Bram Stoker's masterpiece has become a mirror in which later generations of readers can explore any number of secret fantasies.
(7) Stoker would go to the reading room of the Royal Hotel and look out at the scene you can see now.
(8) Miller, who played incarcerated structural engineer Michael Scofield in Prison Break from 2005 to 2009, wrote the script for the film Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook.
(9) Other films expected to premiere are Park Chan-wook's thriller Stoker; Lovelace – an account of the life of porn star Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace ; and Breathe in, a new drama from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus.
(10) But the mark Stoker left on the town is as indelible as a pair of pinprick bites on a snow-white neck.
(11) ... 1892!” He goes on: “Whitby was undoubtedly instrumental to Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
(12) In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Count Dracula lives in a crumbling Transylvanian castle.
(13) Among the contemporary anxieties reflected in Stoker's tale was a fear about the future.
(14) Samples of coal ash from a stoker-fired furnace were mechanically sized into four categories.
(15) Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , James Hogg 's Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Robert Louis Stevenson 's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James and MR James .
(16) In fact, here’s one now ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whitby as Stoker saw it … the town pictured between 1890 and 1900.
(17) Kidman, responding at a special screening of her new film Stoker in London last week, said she was determined to present a carefully crafted take on Alfred Hitchcock 's best known muse.
(18) One of Stoker's many influences in setting the novel in Transylvania was local mass murderer Vlad III "the Impaler", the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula.
(19) Elsewhere, in the Daily Mail , Bram Stoker was rated above both Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ( No 10 in this series ).
(20) This study was set up to investigate whether work as a stoker is associated with an increased risk of specific malignant neoplasms.
Stoner
Definition:
(n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
(n.) One who walls with stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(2) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
(3) The relationship between free and bound tryptophan in samples of rat plasma (Stoner et al., 1975) is discussed in terms of a similar but limited study of rat albumin.
(4) Doctor Brown In 2011, the American Phil Burgers (AKA bearded silent comic Doctor Brown) performed the funniest comedy show on the fringe : a sexy, stoner clown show that delighted, intrigued and molested its audience.
(5) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
(6) If you make a good one with Anna Faris in it …" It might not have made any awards shortlists, but it must be admitted, Smiley Face contains some hilarious moments, one of which is a parody of Jane Fonda's rousing speech to the factory workers in Jean-Luc Godard's Tout Va Bien – how many stoner movies can you say that about?
(7) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by escapeclause and Mel Gravelrash Luxton The classic rebellious misfit teen, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) from 80s flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High is, as stated by user escapeclause, “surely a deserving number-one screen stoner”.
(8) Suggested by SirRoystenMerchant This 90s stoner comedy, the brainchild of rapper Ice Cube, stars Chris Tucker as Smokey, a pothead who sells (or, in reality, smokes) weed on behalf of Big Worm, the local dealer.
(9) Unlike the young stoner stereotype, Cullen said, “our average customer is a business professional, and the vast majority are middle-aged folks with disposable income”.
(10) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by Caligula , thinknot and drewtox One of Brad Pitt’s more minor but memorable roles is as the couch-bound stoner Floyd in Tarantino classic True Romance .
(11) QIND correlated significantly with the severity of disease according to the sepsis score of Elebute and Stoner (r = 0.763, P less than 0.005).
(12) Set in New York, it sees skint stoners Abbi Jacobson (neurotic) and Ilana Glazer (filthy) make the most mundane parts of their everyday lives into one of the best online comedies out there.
(13) Mostly, he makes only partial sense, but he sums up the already-nostalgic mood of the film, set in the last days of 1969, when he complains: “They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man.” 7 | Carl Spackler … from Caddyshack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amazing stuff: Bill Murray as stoner greenskeeper Carl Spackler in Caddyshack.
(14) Such tipping movement in the absence of the adjacent tooth depends not only upon the magnitude of orthodontic force as classified into Stoner 4D, but also upon the condition of the extracted wounds.
(15) Either way, his novel The Savage Detectives – typically considered his masterpiece – can be seen as a modest contribution to stoner literature.
(16) It’s been a while since we had such a heavy-duty concentration of stoner humour in a film by a serious artist.
(17) The costumes are also about us not wanting to be in the limelight.” The musicians shrouded behind Goat’s tall tales and masks might look like they have something to hide, but the pantomime serves to convey the band’s intriguing philosophy more effectively than if they were to reveal themselves as just a bunch of stoners from Gothenburg.
(18) Punk rock lives on through a network of leathery stoners and their dogs.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(20) While the NSW government has expanded its assistance measures, there is a clear need for the Commonwealth to now put forward a comprehensive package to assist primary producers to respond to this drought,” the NSW deputy premier, Andrew Stoner, said.