Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
stoke
(verb) stir up or tend; of a fire
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)
(transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)
(transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
(transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
(intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
stoke (plural stokes)
(physics) Misconstruction of stokes (unit of kinematic viscosity)
• ketos, tokes
Stoke
Short for Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
Stoke is also incorporated into many other English place names, which will be listed below.
• ketos, tokes
Source: Wiktionary
Stoke, v. t. Etym: [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.
Stoke, v. i.
Definition: To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 March 2024
(adjective) crowded or massed together; “give me...your huddled masses”; “the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind”
Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.