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POKE, n. A pocket; a small bag; as a pig in a poke.

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POKE, n. A pocket; a small bag; as a pig in a poke.

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POKE, v.t.1 [Corn. pokkia, to thrust or push. In Armoric, pochan is one that dives or plunges.]

  1. Properly, to thrust; hence to feel or search for with a long instrument. – Brown.
  2. To thrust at with the horns, as an ox; a popular use of the word in New England. And intransitively, to poke at, is to thrust the horns at.

POKE, v.t.2

To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox. – New England.


POKE, n.1 [Sax. pocca, poha; Fr. poche, a pouch or bag.]

A pocket; a small bag; as, a pig in a poke. – Camden. Spectator.


POKE, n.2

In New England, a machine to prevent unruly beasts from leaping fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointing forward.


Poke
  1. A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
  2. A bag; a sack; a pocket.

    "He drew a dial from his poke." Shak.

    They wallowed as pigs in a poke. Chaucer.

  3. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed] hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

    He poked John, and said "Sleepest thou ?" Chaucer.

  4. To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

    A man must have poked into Latin and Greek. Prior.

  5. The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

    Ld. Lytton.
  6. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.

    To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. Camden.

  7. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
  8. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.

    [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.
  9. To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

    [Colloq. U. S.]

    To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.] -- To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]

  10. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

    [U.S.]

    Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

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Poke

POKE, noun A pocket; a small bag; as a pig in a poke

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