stoker UK /ˈstəʊkə/US /ˈstoʊkɚ/ noun4 •A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position? — 1960 •A device for stoking a fire; a poker. •A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works. — 1962 •A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle. formsstokers