Poker \Pok"er\, n. [From Poke to push.]

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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Poker \Pok"er\, n. [Of uncertain etymol.]

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Poker \Pok"er\, n. [Cf. Dan. pokker the deuce, devil, also W. pwci, a hobgoblin, bugbear, and E. puck.]

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Poachard \Poach"ard\, n. [From Poach to stab.]

[Written also pocard, pochard.]

(Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, or red-headed, widgeon.
   (b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.

Red-crested poachard (Zo["o]l.), an Old World duck (Branta rufina).

Scaup poachard, the scaup duck.

Tufted poachard, a scaup duck (Aythya, or Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)