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stoke

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Verb

  1. To poke, pierce, thrust.
  2. To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
  3. To encourage a behavior or emotion.
  4. To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Noun

  1. An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
  2. Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.

Proper noun

  1. Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
  2. A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
  3. A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
  4. An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
  5. A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
  6. An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.

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