poker
/ˈpoʊkɚ/ noun B1- A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
- A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- One who pokes.
- A kind of duck, the pochard.
- A knife.
Plural pokers
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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You’d eaten up a poker!”
2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots.
“No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘_poison_’ or not”; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they _would_ not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger _very_ deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
See here.” He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands.
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