poker🔊

A metal (rod), generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning (logs) or coals in a (fire); a firestick. +

(historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.

One who pokes.

A kind of duck, the (pochard).

(slang) A knife. +

(obsolete) A bedel (who carries a silver mace). +

To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

(card games) Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more (rounds) of (dealing) or revealing 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).

(card games) All the four cards of the same rank.

(fourgoals) (rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match. +

To play poker.

(colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.