Definition of poke

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Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..

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Explicit :: Explicit (a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement..
Potter :: Potter (v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother..
Type :: Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed..
Alphabetism :: Alphabetism (n.) The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.
Stokehole :: Stoke (v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc..
Subject :: Subject (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb..
Dig :: Dig (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4..
Word :: Word (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable..
Friesic :: Friesic (n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark..
Spoliated :: Spokesman (n.) One who speaks for another.
Inveigh :: Inveigh (v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse..
Drama :: Drama (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage..
Poke :: Poke (v. t.) To thrust with the horns; to gore.
Romany :: Romany (n.) The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies.
Fire-set :: Fire-set (n.) A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker..
Side :: Side (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc..
Spoken :: Spoken (p. p.) of Spea.
Verbal :: Verbal (a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony..
Punch :: Punch (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow..
Spoken :: Spoke (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel..
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