stoke
Plural: stokes
Verb
Verb Forms: stoked, stoking, stokes
- To add fuel to a fire; to stir up or strengthen.
- stir up or tend; of a fire
- To poke, pierce, thrust.
- To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
- To encourage a behavior or emotion.
- To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
Noun
- An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
- Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.
Examples
- He managed to stoke his score by connecting a high-value letter to a bonus square.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 9
stoke: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstoke: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stoke: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary