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Definition of Poker

1. Noun. Fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire.

2. Noun. Any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand.

Definition of Poker

1. n. One who pokes.

2. n. A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

3. n. Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Definition of Poker

1. Noun. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. (defdate from earlier 16th c.) ¹

2. Noun. One who pokes. ¹

3. Noun. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the 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. (defdate from earlier 19th c.) ¹

4. Noun. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Poker

1. one that pokes [n -S] - See also: pokes

Medical Definition of Poker

1. 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. 4. The poachard. Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Origin: From Poke to push. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poker

poke into poke milkweed poke one's nose into poke out poke salad poke salads pokebag pokeberries pokeberry poked

poked borack poked borax poked fun pokeful pokefuls poker (current term) poker-faced poker alumroot poker back poker chip

poker chips poker face poker faced poker faces poker game poker hand poker heuchera poker machine poker machines poker plant

Literary usage of Poker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"A Treatise on poker, E. Philpots. poker Probabilities Calculated for Full Packs and for the Piquet Pack, Reynolds. ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"THE OUTCASTS OF poker FLAT. AS Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, slopped into the main street of poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"poker. A poker set leaning against the upper bar» of a ... poker Picture«, Drawings executed by the point of ahot poker or "heater" of an Italian iron. ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"AS Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"poker, or DRAW-poker, a card game said to have originated in the United States, and of which there are several varieties, the most common being draw-poker, ..."

6. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"That looks like a passably comfortable berth, there, beside the poker. My dear fellow, (to the poker,) could you possibly make a little room there for me ? ..."

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