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.

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