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Categories: Railway occupations, Steam locomotives, All articles with unsourced statements, All articles with vague or ambiguous time

stoker fireman boiler-man boiler man Boilerman

A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) WordNet 3.0

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A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Wikipedia

An individual employed to tend the fire for running a steam engine, either on a stationary engine, a railway locomotive or a steamship Wikipedia Disambiguation

The person who tends the fire for the running of a steam engine Wikipedia Disambiguation

A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship. Wiktionary

Person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler. Wiktionary (translation)

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers. Wiktionary

Person who stokes. Wiktionary (translation)

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