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Thread #41183   Message #593578
Posted By: Giac
15-Nov-01 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Settin' the Woods on Fire (Hank Williams)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Set thw woods on fire - Hank William
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

stoker

NOUN: 1. One who is employed to feed fuel to and tend a furnace, as on a steam locomotive or a steamship. 2. A mechanical device for feeding coal to a furnace.

ETYMOLOGY: Dutch, from stoken, to stoke, from Middle Dutch stken, to poke.

**BG**

Or, maybe they did know what stoker meant...

~;o)