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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Poker

/pōk'-ẽr/ · Pok·er · IPA /ˈpoʊkɚ/
01 n. One who pokes.
  1. 1.
    One who pokes.
  2. 2.
    That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
  3. 3.
    A poking-stick.
  4. 4.
    The poachard.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]
Phrases & compounds
Poker picture — a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron.
02 n. A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
  1. 1.
    A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
03 n. Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
  1. 1.
    Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.[Colloq. U. S.]