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Poker : (noun)
1: fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to
stir a fire [syn: stove poker, fire hook, salamander]
2: any of various card games in which players bet that they
hold the highest-ranking hand [syn: poker game]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Poker : \Pok"er\, n. [Based on 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Poker : \Pok"er\, n. [Of uncertain etymol.]
A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about
1835 in the Southwestern United States. --Johnson's Cyc.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Poker : \Pok"er\, n. [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.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Poachard \Poach"ard\, n. [Based on Poach to stab.] [Written also
pocard, pochard.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A common European duck ({Aythya ferina); -- called also
goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, or red-headed,
widgeon.
(b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the
European poachard.
Red-crested poachard (Zo["o]l.), an Old World duck ({Branta
rufina).
Scaup poachard, the scaup duck.
Tufted poachard, a scaup duck ({Aythya, or Fuligula
cristata), native of Europe and Asia.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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