Poker /(?)/

Pok·er

Poker

n.
  1. One who pokes.
  2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
  3. A poking-stick.
  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.

Poker

n.
  1. A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

Poker

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