Meaning

1 senses

  1. An act of poking, piercing, thrusting

Examples

20 sentences

  1. Janos was stoking up the campfire.

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  2. I asked Tom to stoke the fire.

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  3. Suddenly smelling smoke could be a sign of stoke.

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  4. Matthew stoked the campfire to keep the flames alive.

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  5. I held her hand and stoked it with my thumb.

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Origin

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low Ger

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”).

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Forms

plural: stokes
Singularstoke
Pluralstokes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stoepstoicstoicismC2stomachA2stomachacheA2stomp

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