"mechanical stoker" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mechanical stokers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mechanical stoker (plural mechanical stokers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, pages 393, 395",
          "text": "These boats maintain a speed of 21 knots and were built for coal firing, with mechanical stokers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 March, \"\"Balmore\"\", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 150",
          "text": "But let us say that No. U.1 is a 4-6-4 fitted with Walschaerts valve gear operating piston valves, and a four-cylinder compound, with coupled wheels of 6ft 7in diameter. The boiler is pressed at 290 lb/sq in, the grate is of 56 sq ft and, for the pleasure of the enginemen, there is an American \"Standard\" mechanical stoker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device for moving coal, coke or anthracite into the firebox or furnace of a steam boiler, which was fitted to many large steam locomotives."
      ],
      "id": "en-mechanical_stoker-en-noun-Fb5WtTEW",
      "links": [
        [
          "firebox",
          "firebox"
        ],
        [
          "furnace",
          "furnace"
        ],
        [
          "steam boiler",
          "steam boiler"
        ],
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "stoker-fired"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mechanical stoker"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mechanical stokers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mechanical stoker (plural mechanical stokers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "stoker-fired"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, pages 393, 395",
          "text": "These boats maintain a speed of 21 knots and were built for coal firing, with mechanical stokers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 March, \"\"Balmore\"\", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 150",
          "text": "But let us say that No. U.1 is a 4-6-4 fitted with Walschaerts valve gear operating piston valves, and a four-cylinder compound, with coupled wheels of 6ft 7in diameter. The boiler is pressed at 290 lb/sq in, the grate is of 56 sq ft and, for the pleasure of the enginemen, there is an American \"Standard\" mechanical stoker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device for moving coal, coke or anthracite into the firebox or furnace of a steam boiler, which was fitted to many large steam locomotives."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firebox",
          "firebox"
        ],
        [
          "furnace",
          "furnace"
        ],
        [
          "steam boiler",
          "steam boiler"
        ],
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mechanical stoker"
}