stoke

stoke
\ \ [17] Stoke is a back-formation from stoker [17], which was borrowed from Dutch stoker.
\ \ This in turn was derived from the verb stoken ‘put fuel into a furnace’, a descendant of Middle Dutch stoken ‘push, poke’. And stoken came from a prehistoric Germanic base *stok-, a variant of *stik-, *stek- ‘pierce, prick’, from which English gets stick, stitch, etc. So the etymological meaning underlying stoke is of ‘thrusting’ fuel into a fire like a sharp instrument being pushed into something.
\ \ Cf.⇒ STICK, STITCH

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