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Substantiivi

1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
2. (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.
3. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
4. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
5. (card games) All the four cards of the same rank.
6. One who pokes.
7. (soccer, rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
8. A kind of duck, the pochard.
9. (MLE, slang) A knife.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
2. To play poker.