Harry, I suspect you'll have to wait for the UK edition. Otherwise, I suggest you use a dictionary that includes some slang.
See here. ... Actually, I just checked my OED and it also includes a matching definition for Stoke. Entry reads:
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stoke, v.2
1.a trans. To feed, stir up, and poke the fire in (a furnace), to tend the furnace of (a boiler). Also, to feed or build up (a fire), and with up.
b. fig.
c. To excite, thrill, elate. slang (chiefly Surfing).
2. transf. (jocular). To feed (oneself or another) as if stoking a furnace; to ‘shovel’ (food) into one's mouth steadily and continuously. Also absol. with up.
3 In combination, as stoke-hearth, stoke-house; stoke-up slang, a large or sustaining meal.
Hence stoked ppl. a., (a) subjected to the action of the vb.; (b) (slang) excited; keen or ‘hooked’ on.
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I'm not sure how widely "stoked" is recognised, but here in Australia the meaning is fairly clear in context.