·vt A fire poker.
II. Stoker ·vt 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.
, or fireman. The man who attends to feed and trim the fires for the boilers in a steam-vessel. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A lazy skulker. ...