stoke

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see also: Stoke

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Pronunciation

• (British) enPR: stōk, IPA: /stəʊk/
• (America) enPR: stōk, IPA: /stoʊk/

Verb

stoke (stokes, present participle stoking; past and past participle stoked)

1. (transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
   • (1387 – 1400) Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, Part IV.

     Ne short swerd, for to stoke with poynt bitynge, / No man ne drawe, ne bere it by his syde.

Translations

• French: tisonner
• German: stochen, schüren

Verb

stoke (stokes, present participle stoking; past and past participle stoked)

1. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
2. (transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
3. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Related terms

• stoker

Translations

• French: tiser, tisonner
• German: stochen, schüren
• Italian: attizzare
• Portuguese: atiçar
• Russian: топи́ть
• Spanish: atizar

Noun

stoke (plural stokes)

1. (physics) Misconstruction of stokes#English|stokes unit of kinematic viscosity

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Stoke

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Proper noun

1. Short for Stoke-on-Trent#English|Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
2. A village on Hayling Island (OS grid ref SU7102).

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