stoke
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To poke, pierce, thrust.
- To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
- To encourage a behavior or emotion.
- To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
Noun
- An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
- Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.
Proper noun
- Ellipsis of Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
- A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
- A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
- An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
- A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
- An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.
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