stokelt, kelt

t. and i. [ stock2, stoccade.] To pierce; stick; Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bytynge. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1688. stoke2 (stōk), v.; pret. and pp. stoked, ppr. stok ing. [ stoker, [ -er1, but appar. Much skill is needed to stoke the furnace of a steam boiler succe fully; and one stoker will often be able to keep the steam well up when another of equal strength and diligence will fail altogether. Brande and Cox , Dict. Sci., Lit., and Art. Cold stoking, in gla - manuf., the proce of lowering the temperature of the oven until the gla attains the tough fluid consistency nece ary for blowing. II. in trans . To attend to and supply a furnace with fuel; act as a stoker or fireman. stoke-hole (stōk'hōl), n. The compartment of a steamer in which the furnace-fires are worked: in the United States called fire - room . stoker (stō'kėr), n. [ stoker , one who kindles or sets on fire, stoken , kindle a fire, stir a fire, stoker, an automatic device for feeding fuel to a furnace, and for keeping the grate free from ashes and clinkers. Many such machines have been invented. Endle aprons or chains, or revolving toothed cylinders, are common feeders, distributing the coal to the grate in definite quantity as needed, while shaking grates, revolving grate-bars, and special bars called picker - bars, with teeth working in the air-spaces of the grate, are employed for the discharge of ashes and cinders. IMG:content-2172.png:[blocks in formation] and series Stilpnopap or peæ. It is characterized by large stalked heads of blue flowers, with smooth three four-angled achenes and a pappus of four or five long bristles. The corollas, unlike the tubular type otherwise prevalent in the tribe, are flattened above the middle and somewhat ligulate, and toward the outside of the head, by their increased size and deeply five-parted border, they suggest the tribe Cichoriaceæ. The only species, S. cyanea, is a native of the southern United States near the Gulf of Mexico, a rare plant of wet pine-barrens. It is an erect shrub, clad above with loose wool and alternate clasping leaves, and bearing petioled leaves below, which are entire or spiny-fringed. The handsome blue flowers form large terminal heads which are purplish in the Roman Woman Clad in the Stola (over which is draped the palla). of Stokes's aster. Stolephorus bud, resemble those of the China aster, and are grown in large quantities for the London market, under the name stola (stoʻlà), n.; pl. pl. stolæ stolæ (-lē). (-10 [L.:: see stole2.] An ample outer tunic or dre worn by Roman women over the under-tunic or chemise: it fell as low as the ankles or feet, and was gathered in around the waist by a girdle. It was a characteristic garment of the Roman matrons, as the toga was of the men, and divorced women and courtezans were not permitted to wear it. See cut in preceding column. stolel (stol). Preterit and obsolete past participle of steall.