Poker

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who pokes.

2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

3. A poking-stick. Decker.

4. The poachard. [Prov. Eng.] Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Fairholt.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. [Colloq. U. S.]