| Poker 1. (n.) One who pokes. 2. (n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals. 3. (n.) A poking-stick. 4. (n.) The poachard. 5. (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. 6. (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. Thesaurus Entries andiron, chain, coal tongs, crane, crook, damper, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, lifter, pothook, salamander, spit, tongs, tripod, trivet, turnspit |