stokers in English

noun
1
a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam locomotive.
An example is the Yemeni community of South Shields, which began at the end of the 19th century when Yemenis working as stokers on steamships moved ashore and set up boarding houses in the dock area.
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1. This paper analyses the existential problems of the scaly chain stoker, and introduces two types of the light chain stokers , which operate more economically and safely.

2. -- La Bretagne, the French liner, scheduled to sail for New York Saturday, is still delayed owing to a serious strike among her stokers and Bunkermen.

3. For particulate control, electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) and cyclones are commonly used with pulverized coal, while multiple cyclones are generally used for stokers and oil-fired units.

4. They were firemen and stokers, Bunkermen and coal boys, greasers (greasing machinery), trimmers (moving coal around to keep the ship balanced) and donkeymen (tending the auxiliary boilers)

5. Shortly after, Australia was ready to depart, but when the order to release the mooring lines and get underway was given, Cumberlege was informed that the stokers had abandoned the boiler rooms.