stoke

Meanings

Plural: stokes

Verb

stir up or tend; of a fire
To poke, pierce, thrust.
To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
To encourage a behavior or emotion.
To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Noun

An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”).
Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.

Scrabble Score: 9

stoke is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
stoke is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stoke is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

stoke is a valid Words With Friends word