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Definition of Pokers
1. poker [n] - See also: poker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokers
Literary usage of Pokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"Hence, the sticks of pinon (dests'fn) used as pokers are hewn from branches
pointing east, south, west and north, in which respective positions they are ..."
2. The Sampling and Assay of the Precious Metals: Comprising Gold, Silver by Ernest Alfred Smith (1913)
"pokers.—These are made of stout round bar-iron £ inch diameter, ... Two straight
pokers, one 30 to inches long and a shorter one 18 inches long, ..."
3. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machyn, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"The serenaders, consisting of persons of all ages and denominations, were well
supplied with kettles, tin cans, cover-lids, hand-bells, pokers and tongs, ..."
4. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"pokers add little or nothing to the fire. Under their exertions it may burn
fiercely for a time ; but without the provision for its continuance, ..."
5. Handbook of Railroad Expenses by James Shirley Eaton (1913)
"... roadway and yards 5 in buildings 16 Points, switch in track in ballast pit 2
in roadway and yards 5 in buildings 16 pokers for locomotives 76, 85 stove, ..."
6. A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters Comprising by Frederick Peter Seguier (1870)
"... oils, varnish, water, gums, wool, worsted, pokers, chalk, charcoal, and
brickdust have each their several champions, who triumph and fall by turn«. ..."
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