Poker

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who pokes.

II. Poker ·noun A poking-stick.

III. Poker ·noun The Poachard.

IV. Poker ·noun Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

V. Poker ·noun A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

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