0 present participle of stoke
1 to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat:
Their systematic actions to these ends definitively puts paid to the idea that they were deliberately stoking the racial violence.
One sign of commercialism is its tendency to inflate need by stoking desire.
He said that there were too many nineteenth century boilers, too much wasteful stoking, inadequate insulation and lagging, supervision and control.
But there will still remain a large number of small boiler plants which it would be unreasonable or impracticable to convert to automatic stoking.
They cannot expand the economy without facing the fearful danger of stoking reflation.
Possibly, some day we may have oil engines, and no stoking to do.
Special efforts should be made to prevent smoke when stoking.
Such a combination would of course only help to make the problem worse—by running up huge deficits and further stoking the economy.
