Available Definitions:
1) n. - One who pokes.
2) n. - That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
3) n. - A poking-stick.
4) n. - The poachard.
5) n. - A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
6) n. - Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.