different between stoke vs stote

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: st?k, IPA^(key): /st??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• (US) enPR: st?k, IPA^(key): /sto?k/

Etymology 1

From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stuk?n? (“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.

Verb

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

1. (transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
   • (1387 – 1400) Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, Part IV.

     Ne short swerd, for to stoke with poynt bitynge, / No man ne drawe, ne bere it by his syde.

     Nor any shortened sword, for point-thrusting, / Shall a man draw, or bear it by his side.

Translations

Etymology 2

From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from stock (“stick, stock”), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.

Verb

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

1. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
2. (transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
   • 1974, Joni Mitchell, "Free Man in Paris":

     Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song
3. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

Derived terms

• stokehole

Related terms

• stoker

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

stoke (plural stokes)

1. (physics) Misconstruction of stokes (unit of kinematic viscosity)

Anagrams

• ketos, tokes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

stoke

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stoken

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

stoke (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. inflection of stoka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stoke]

Noun

stoke

1. dative/locative singular of stoka

English

Noun

stote (plural stotes)

1. Obsolete form of stoat.

Anagrams

• TOSET, Toste, set to, set-to, totes

Dutch

Verb

stote

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stoten

Anagrams

• toets