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Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, now merged into Stoke and Hurleston civil parish.
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A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
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A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
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An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
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A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
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An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.
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noun
An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
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noun
Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.
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Usage: alt-of, misconstruction
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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verb
To poke, pierce, thrust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To encourage a behavior or emotion.
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Usage: broadly, transitive
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verb
To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
stir up or tend; of a fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tend
History
From Old English stoc (“place”).
From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.
From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from stock (“stick, stock”), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.
Across languages
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