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Definition of Stove poker
1. Noun. Fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stove Poker
Literary usage of Stove poker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School Journal (1895)
"To cut glass bottles : Thrust the stove poker into the fire and, while it is
heating, cut quite a deep gash in one side of the bottle with a wet file. ..."
2. The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich (1907)
"In the same manner the rays of the sun heat the surface of the soil. Experiment.—Take
the stove poker or any small iron rod and hold one end of it ..."
3. Practical Homemaking; a Textbook for Young Housekeepers by Mabel Hyde Kittredge (1914)
"Stove, coal stove if necessary, $ 9.00 Connected with stove: Poker 06 Rake n
Whisk broom 13 Blacking brush & dauber 25 Stove lifter 06 Shovel 08 Coal ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1890)
"... I —" Last Rose," I — Herman A. Webster, I —EWJ,2 — " Richard Coeur de Lion,"
I — SWF,2— Grace Compton, I — JB Briggs, Jr., I —" stove poker," 2 — Grace ..."
5. Manual of Home-made Apparatus with Reference to Chemistry, Physics, and by John Francis Woodhull (1895)
"To cut glass bottles: Thrust the stove poker into the fire and, while it is
heating, cut quite a deep gash in one side of the bottle with a wet file. ..."
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