Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stoke
nounstoking (plural stokings)
plural stokings
- The act by which something is stoked.
To prevent sudden changes in temperature from cracking the pots, the wood fire is built up slowly for several hours and then increased for four to five hours with intermittent stokings of scrap pine slabs.
1987, Jan Arnow, By Southern hands: a celebration of craft traditions in the South
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stoking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoking.
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