poker

One of various kinds of wild ducks, especially the pochard.

In cotton manufacturing, a vertical rod or rack which sustains and gives motion to the bobbin or ring-rail of a roving or ring-spinning machine; also, a rod with similar functions in other machines: sometimes called a lifting-poker.

Any frightful object; a bugbear.

One who or that which pokes.

An iron or steel bar or rod used in poking or stirring a fire.

A small stick or iron used for setting the plaits of ruffs; a poking-stick.

An iron instrument used for driving hoops on masts. It has a flat foot at one end and a round knob at the other.

A game of cards played by two or more persons with a full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank as in whist.

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

One who pokes.