a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam train (汽船、蒸汽火车的)生火工,锅炉工,司炉 ■a mechanical device for supplying fuel to a firebox or furnace, especially on a steam locomotive (尤指蒸汽机车上的)加煤机
语源
mid 17th cent.: from Dutch, from stoken 'stoke (a furnace)', from Middle Dutch stoken 'push, poke'; related to stick