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Definition of Stoking
1. stoke [v] - See also: stoke
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Literary usage of Stoking
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1. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1910)
"Mechanical stoking. Many appliances have been devised for the mechanical supply
... Several methods of mechanical stoking are effective for their purpose, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"6. the stoking of the furnace must therefore be regular and constant. Various
appliances for mechanical stoking have been applied to glass furnaces, ..."
3. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"This system of methodical stoking at stated intervals, ... Experiments on Mechanical
stoking.—Numerous attempts have been made to introduce mechanical ..."
4. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"This system of methodical stoking at stated intervals, ... Experiments on Mechanical
stoking.—Numerous attempts have been made to introduce mechanical ..."
5. Marine Boilers: Their Construction & Working, Dealing More Especially with by Louis Emile Bertin (1898)
"This system of methodical stoking at stated intervals, ... Experiments on Mechanical
stoking.—Numerous attempts have been made to introduce mechanical ..."
6. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1899)
"We should fear that many of boiler-room staff must have materially shortened
their lives by the exhaust- ing effort of stoking and clearing fires in an ..."
7. The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book by H. A. Burberry (1900)
"stoking, then, is an important matter, and such work should be done by an ...
There is art even in stoking a greenhouse fire, and the person who is in ..."
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