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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
