POKER

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

One who pokes.

2.
n.

That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

3.
n.

A poking-stick. Decker.

4.
n.

The poachard. [Prov. Eng.] Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Fairholt.

5.
n.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

6.
n.

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. [Colloq. U. S.]

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