Poker
['pəʊkə] or ['pokɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand.
(noun.) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire.
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Definition
(n.) One who pokes.
(n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
(n.) A poking-stick.
(n.) The poachard.
(n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
(n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Low, U. S.] Bugbear, hobgoblin, spectre, ogre, frightful object, raw head and bloody bones.
Edited by Jason
Definition
n. a round game at cards first played in America about 1835.
n. a bugbear.—adj. Pō′kerish causing terror: uncanny.—Old Poker the devil.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a red hot poker, or fighting with one, signifies that you will meet trouble with combative energy. To play at poker, warns you against evil company; and young women, especially, will lose their moral distinctiveness if they find themselves engaged in this game.
Typist: Stanley
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- Grin away,' said Sikes, replacing the poker, and surveying him with savage contempt; 'grin away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He rushed at the burglars, but another--it was an elderly man--stooped, picked the poker out of the grate and struck him a horrible blow as he passed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I take the poker--so--and give it a dig--' 'Don't disturb it, Charley, or it'll be all in a blaze. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The fire which is hot enough to melt a lump of ice may not be hot enough to melt an iron poker; on the other hand, it may be sufficiently hot to melt a tin spoon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Yes, his head was knocked in with his own poker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You know what the counsel said, Sammy, as defended the gen'l'm'n as beat his wife with the poker, venever he got jolly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I had to put my hand behind his legs for the poker when I went up to the fireplace to stir the fire, but still pretended not to know him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That's what she did, said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; she Ram-paged out, Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At Jersey City a poker game was started by one of the delegates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Heat from the fire passed into the poker, traveled along it, and warmed it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thank you for the beautiful shawls, brother, said Amelia to the fire poker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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