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Webster 1913 Edition

Poker

Pok′er

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Noun.
[From
Poke
to push.]
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.
Decker.
4.
(Zool.)
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.

Pok′er

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Noun.
[Of uncertain etymol.]
A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
Johnson’s Cyc.

Pok′er

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Noun.
[Cf. Dan.
pokker
the deuce, devil, also W.
pwci
, a hobgoblin, bugbear, and E.
puck
.]
Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Poker

PO'KER

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Noun.
[from poke.] An iron bar used in stirring the fire when coal is used for fuel.

PO'KER

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Noun.
[L. bos, bovis.] Any frightful object, especially in the dark; a bugbear; a word in common popular use in America.

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