To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner.
To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
A prod, jab, or thrust.
A lazy person; a dawdler.
The slowness of this stupid poke tortures me to death.
A sack or bag.
A surname.
From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitativ...
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And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’
A long, wide sleeve.
Pokeweed, and its berries.
[W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.]
Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page).