stoke
stoke Lexical Profile
stoke Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To encourage, incite, or intensify a strong emotion, controversy, or reaction.
"The central bank's sudden announcement helped stoke optimism across the financial markets."
To add coal, wood, or other solid fuel to a fire, furnace, or boiler and tend it to keep it burning strongly.
"He woke up early to stoke the woodstove before the cabin grew too cold."
• noun
A feeling of intense excitement, enthusiasm, or exhilaration, especially in surfing and action sports culture.
"You could feel the pure stoke among the surfers as the morning swell rolled in."
The centimeter-gram-second unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to one square centimeter per second.
"The engineer measured the fluid's resistance to flow in fractions of a stoke."
• Rhymes for stoke
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 17th century from Dutch stoken ('to feed a fire, stir up'), originally derived from Middle Dutch stoke ('stick, pole') used to poke burning coals.