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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Drudging; servile.

[Colloq.]

Bred to some

poking

profession.

Gray.

ppr.

Feeling in the dark; stirring with a poker; thrusting at with the horns; putting a poke on.

Adj.

Drudging; servile.

poking

poking ‎(plural pokings)

The act by which something is poked.
- E. E. Cummings
  perfunctory proddings and pokings