noun.
One who is employed to feed fuel to and tend a furnace, as on a steam locomotive or a steamship.
noun.
A mechanical device for feeding coal to a furnace.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
One who attends to and maintains suitable combustion in a furnace, especially a furnace used in generating steam, as on a locomotive or steamship; a fireman.
noun.
A poker.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.