stokers
They feed boilers
Stokers is the plural of stoker, a person who tends a furnace or boiler by feeding it fuel.
The job was essential on coal-powered steamships and locomotives, where stokers shoveled coal into fireboxes to maintain steam pressure.
The term now applies to anyone who stokes a fire, or to mechanical devices that automatically feed fuel: The ship's stokers worked in brutal heat below deck.
Emergency blaze responder
- shovelTool for moving earth
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- boilerWater-heating vessel
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
grate · tongs · bellows · firebrick · feed · ash · soot · embers
Rail vehicle or instruct
- railwayTrack system for trains
- tenderSoft or sore
- engineerTechnical design professional
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
cab · steam engine · railroad · fireman · throttle · Victorian · industrial · iron horse
Facility producing electricity
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- boilerWater-heating vessel
- millGrain-crushing facility
smelter · ironworks · foundry · labor · shift work · worker · coal · mechanical
Boiler-propelled water vessel
- engine roomShip's propulsion compartment
- boiler roomHeating system enclosure
- coal bunkerSolid fuel storage container
- crewWorking team aboard
vessel · navy · merchant marine · below decks · ocean liner · warship · Titanic · hull
Supplying energy source
- incitingUrging others to act
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- inflamingArousing strong emotion
- rousingExciting strong feeling
agitating · fanning · kindling · provoking · encouraging · motivating · energizing · feeding
fireman
Emergency blaze responder
firebox · grate · tongs · bellows · firebrick · feed · ash · soot · embers · poker
train
Rail vehicle or instruct
coal · cab · steam engine · railroad · fireman · throttle · Victorian · industrial · iron horse · express
powerplant
Facility producing electricity
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- boilerWater-heating vessel
mill · smelter · ironworks · foundry · labor · shift work · worker · coal · mechanical · conveyor
steamship
Boiler-propelled water vessel
- engine roomShip's propulsion compartment
- boiler roomHeating system enclosure
- coal bunkerSolid fuel storage container
crew · vessel · navy · merchant marine · below decks · ocean liner · warship · Titanic · hull · voyage
fueling
Supplying energy source
rousing · agitating · fanning · kindling · provoking · encouraging · motivating · energizing · feeding · driving
- coal industrycoal mining, strip mining, coal cars, anthracite, coal chutes
- coal powercoal mine, coal dust, coal seam, coal yard, coal bunker
- railroad jobsconductors, engineers, brakemen, firemen, switchmen
- steam locomotivessteam engines, steam engine, boiler, firebox, steam trains
- naval personnelsailors, seamen, captains, admirals, officers
- naval ranksadmiral, admirals, captain, commodore, commander
stokersengineers
Technical problem solvers
captains · officers · managers · executives · owners
stokersfirefighters
Emergency personnel combating blazes
fire brigade · firemen · smoke jumpers · fire marshals · fire wardens