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noun
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: firestick, stoker, fire pike
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
One who pokes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A kind of duck, the pochard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A knife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, slang
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Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, wetter
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noun
A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
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Synonyms: silver poker
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
All the four cards of the same rank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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Synonyms: haul
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noun
Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, colloquial
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verb
To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To play poker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: poker game
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: card game, cards
Narrower terms: draw, draw poker, high-low, penny ante, penny ante poker, straight poker, strip poker, stud, stud poker
noun
fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stove poker, fire hook, salamander
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fire iron
History
Etymology tree English poke Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English poker From poke + -er.
American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.
Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.
Across languages
123 source translations are retained for this English entry.
