(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.
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Definition:
(n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.