All 5 Uses of
stoke
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- She rolled her eyes whenever she had to undo my mistakes: the tin cans I forgot to wash out and save, the bananas I failed to check for tarantulas, the firebox I once stoked entirely with sticks of bängala—the poisonwood tree!†
Chpt 2
- She burned two in a row, to be exact—she had the fire in the stove stoked up way too high.†
Chpt 3
- On November 27, very early in the day, probably while I was stoking our woodstove for breakfast, Lumumba escaped.†
Chpt 4 *stoking = adding fuel or stirring a fire to make it burn hotter; or making feelings stronger
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- Mother yanked Ruth May out by the arm, pretty hard, when she found her in there; she dreaded that Mama Tataba in one of her energetic fits might stoke up the stove with the baby inside.†
Chpt 1
- We hung our heads, pushed back our chairs, and filed out to help stoke up the firebox in the kitchen house.†
Chpt 1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(stoke) to add fuel or stir a fire to make it burn hotter; or to make feelings stronger
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Stokes can be a name.