English Explanatory Dictionary

stoke

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

stōk /stəʊk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stoke.wav /stoʊk/

Word forms

stoke stokes stoking stoked

Etymology

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.

Related words

stoker

Derived words

overstoke restoke stokehold stokehole stoke up unstoked centistoke Bradley Stoke Chew Stoke East Stoke Harry Stoke Itchen Stoke Limpley Stoke Little Stoke Middle Stoke Purton Stoke Rodney Stoke Severn Stoke South Stoke Stoke Albany Stoke and Hurleston Stoke Bruerne Stoke-by-Clare Stoke-by-Nayland Stoke Canon Stoke Climsland Stoke D'Abernon Stoke Doyle Stoke Edith Stoke Ferry Stoke Fleming Stoke Gabriel Stoke Gifford Stoke Hammond Stoke Holy Cross Stoke Lyne Stoke Mandeville Stoke Newington Stoke on Tern Stoke-on-Trent Stoke Orchard Stoke Pero Stoke Poges Stoke Prior Stoke Rochford Stoke St Gregory Stoke St Mary Stoke St Michael Stoke sub Hamdon Stoke Trister Stoke upon Tern Stoke Works Stokie West Stoke
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